chk232@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agoLemmy is more left leaning because the rights popularity seen on other social media are driven by bots that are not here.message-squaremessage-square418fedilinkarrow-up1975arrow-down1171file-text
arrow-up1804arrow-down1message-squareLemmy is more left leaning because the rights popularity seen on other social media are driven by bots that are not here.chk232@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square418fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarewanderingmagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoWould you consider Mao and Stalin to be left, or right? Would you agree, regardless, that they are authoritarian?
minus-squaretreefrog@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoThey’re authoritarian. Left and Right get conflated with communism/capitalism but all four exist separately from each other. Leftism is about equity of power and the right is about protecting power structures that exist even if unbalanced (the status quo). Capitalism and communism are economic systems, not political positions.
Would you consider Mao and Stalin to be left, or right? Would you agree, regardless, that they are authoritarian?
They’re authoritarian. Left and Right get conflated with communism/capitalism but all four exist separately from each other.
Leftism is about equity of power and the right is about protecting power structures that exist even if unbalanced (the status quo).
Capitalism and communism are economic systems, not political positions.