@AmandaMarcotte If Dem's really cared about our health they would build more hospital beds and give us healthcare. Somehow all the responsibility for this systemic problem gets put on the individual.
@shaneisname I’ve watched his videos. He says he is Marxist but his views differ in subtle but important ways. Largely his interest in elections. I think electoralism has done so much damage to the left. It sucks revolutionary energy back into a rigged system and legitimizes the system.
@shaneisname @SpeaksAngie Yeah I would also consider myself anti-capitalist or marxist more specifically. I wouldn't consider any democrats, liberals, or even AOC leftist but nowadays left just means anything left of center. It's been watered down. Leftism and activism has become a hip business.
@BeIzerker @genkiisyou @metalslimeking@SYACVG Look if i had the money I'd buy the house too. Don't hate the player hate the game. I'm simply trying to say that it makes it difficult for him to act in the interest of the working class or have the same point of view as the working class.
@shaneisname @SpeaksAngie To me being a leftist means being anti-capitalist, not simply left of the center. It's a very important distinction. The "left" is being assimilated into our current power structures and it's original intentional has been lost. That's why I'm not a "leftist" anymore.
@lil_wage@padsby @SpeaksAngie It's not about exclusivity its about corruption. The "Socialist" movement in the states has been corrupted and perverted. It is being absorbed into systems of power, being assimilated, being defanged. It's not socialism anymore it's just a new brand of liberal democracy.