I love these three socialist lemmies. So I’m posting this here. Not sure how well or how mixed a reception this will get here. Not sure if the right place to post it. Plausibly shall step on some toes (with the bottommost instance of “not my left”) a bit. And I imagine there may be some responses nitpicking that 3 of the "not my left"s are more left than “my left” ~ to which I say, misses the point. Anyhoo… enjoy, or don’t. I strive to protect your freedom to receive things however you wish. Love that bitch called interpretation. ;D But I do hope it sparks some interesting thought, discussion, and maybe even is a useful tool. At the very least, it’ll help (a bit) to explain what I mean when I keep saying “not my left”, to those who misrepresent the authoritarian left as “the left”, or even really really misrepresent by calling the nowadays so-called “liberal” (left side of authoritarian right) as “the left”.

  • Digit@lemmy.wtfOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Our other previous interactions, plus othering the other forms of leftism that are different than yours. “Not MY left,” instead of just leaving it blank comes off alarmingly as “I don’t do solidarity with leftists I don’t agree with,” which you then doubled down on by saying just that below.

    What other previous interactions? Just here? (Can’t be, since I’ve been offering refutations to that). Elsewhere? Where?

    “Othering”… o_O

    Well, that’s not really the point of it, and also, again, I’m not forsaking the people, merely stating preference [Edit: of political philosophy]. I’m not really the one doing the othering, either. There are other philosophies. But I’m not doing any put-downs of them, so they can be mistreated. Let alone the people who hold dear to those other philosophies.

    “Not MY left,” instead of just leaving it blank comes off alarmingly as “I don’t do solidarity with leftists I don’t agree with,”

    Fascinating interpretation.

    which you then doubled down on by saying just that below.

    Please use quotes to clarify where you think I doubled down on this. It’s an interpretation so contrary to my meaning, in both the original piece (and its blurb and alt-text) and my contributions to the conversations about it here throughout, that it’s beyond my reach to understand where you mean.

    Still seems more like what you have in your philosophy, than what’s in mine. See again, the invite to consider and introspect on if that’s projecting. Hard to see, our shadows are.