BifiThe french parliament introduced a resolution to condemn Russia's war against Ukraine. Two political parties refused to vote it.
RushLanaI’ve a lot of gripes with LFI (notably on this point) but calling them hardcore leftist is just wrong.
Actual far left parties are NPA or LO in France.
Saying LFI is far left is like saying the german SDP or Joe Biden (US) are far left. They are left-center/left at best, their program is no more radical than Mitterant.
These are bootlicker positions, not leftist positions. I understand that there’s a lot of overlap, though.
FiniteBanjoChina is right wing. I’m sick of everyone pretending the fake socialist Red Fascists are left wing, they never were, they just do their best to infiltrate left wing spaces such as when tbey plotted to replace MLK Jr with their own chosen figureheads in the civil rights movement.
I am not sure you understand how ridiculous you sound.
You think someone is on the left because (checks notes…) says something about Hamas and/or China?
Are you ok?
Have people really completely lost their minds?
It’s like listening to those idiotic Americans calling everything “extreme left” while not having enough grey matter to at least lookup what extreme left used to do. Not that long ago.
Apparently asking not to be killed these days is extreme left.
Humans are so fucking stupid, it is incredible.
You think someone is on the left because (checks notes…) says something about Hamas and/or China?
The traditional left doesn’t endorse Hamas, China, Venezuela or Russia.
Last I checked, MLs aren’t leftists. Favoring state capitalism and totalitarianism comes closer to fascism than to anything left.
It seems the disagreement boils down to what position is far-left and what is moderate. It’s worth remembering that there was far-left opposition (against Russian nationalism in particular) to Bolsheviks inside the party, whom they purged in early years, labeling them bourgeois, and tried hard to suppress them from reappearing. The Bolsheviks also got popular by paying lip service to a much different agenda than they implemented, becoming in practice extremely conservative and repressing worker self-government attempts. So I wouldn’t call them far-left, a term that I’d reserve for anarchists and council communists.
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