Young millennial so getting oldish
I haven't been using a specific micro tendency label. Used to lean more anarchist, now lean more Marxist or post-Marxist. I still have so much to learn but I think there are times nuance is important but also appearing to take a one-sided stance is sometimes necessary when people are engaged in a sort of fake / bad faith sort of "nuance". This can be a very difficult line when it comes to arguing leftists haha
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>dont understand why so many young people fall into the left or this whole anarchist/communist movement.
i can't speak toward specifically communism because that's not what i am, but my poor man's argument for anarchy is as follows
it's cuz a lot of people are fed up with the ways that society is operating, of course.
a lot of people are already living in crisis as it stands, people are deeply unhappy with the way they live, lead unfulfilling lives, and desperately want to change that but see no opportunity in the way things are as they stand. the world is already a heavily dysfunctional mess that has nothing to gain from the equally-if-not-more dysfunctional way that "republicans" choose to do things, that being incessant repression and standing up for the already heavily privileged, e.g., the rich.
politicians realistically do very little for me, and voting for "better" ones doesn't seem to cut it either, so i would rather just do whatever i can to help my community directly rather than sacrificing that power to people who don't care about me whatsoever, some going so far as to actively hate those i hold dear (LGBT etc.)
hope that helps!
oh, and i'm what you would call a "post-left anarchist" which is still quite lefty, despite the name
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Reply by Werx(716)
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As a Gen Xer, I can honestly say I'm an Indie. I have never voted for a "party". I can see the reason why so many Millennials vote far left or communist. You've been given no choice. I think I was in the last years of schools only lightly indoctrinating these ideas. Throughout all pop-culture the narrative is good to hold these values. I can't be frustrated by it. You know nothing else and I can't suggest much of anything. ( for instance it does no good to suggest investigating ideas other than majority rule to some ) I don't think it will "turn out" the way it was sold. Nothing ever is with Government. Government itself carries with it a very ideological lie.
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As a Gen Xer, I can honestly say I'm an Indie. I have never voted for a "party". I can see the reason why so many Millennials vote far left or communist. You've been given no choice. I think I was in the last years of schools only lightly indoctrinating these ideas. Throughout all pop-culture the narrative is good to hold these values. I can't be frustrated by it. You know nothing else and I can't suggest much of anything. ( for instance it does no good to suggest investigating ideas other than majority rule to some ) I don't think it will "turn out" the way it was sold. Nothing ever is with Government. Government itself carries with it a very ideological lie.
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I personally hated Trump, but Biden is an old, shuffling man thats trying to keep up with the new woke world.
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I'm not sure of where in the left i stand since I only started to focus on politics last year:/ but i think im a socialist since communism seems not so good to me. btw a test said im a centrist marxist but I want to figure what I am asap since I hate centrism in any side of the political spectrum.
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Millenial, former Repub-now-registered-Independent who voted for Obama (both times as a registered Rep), Hillary, and Biden. Wanted Bernie. Always voted for who I felt represented what was more important. I've always been political and called myself a "fiscal republican" for most of the time and thought maybe these people that I had similar political views would see how hateful and unworkable their policies were and then Sept 2019, I couldn't take it anymore and changed my party affiliation to "Independent" to vote in the Democratic Primary to try and get Bernie on the Ballot and in the White House. But anywho, love reading these comments.
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I personally sit more toward a libertarian marxist position, but I am really open to hearing about other points of view.
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Me!! I'm actually looking for more leftist friends but left of center is fine too. (Add me maybe? )
)Can be left liberal, socialist, communist, marxist, libertarian socialist, anarchist, socdem, demsoc, green party, etc anything left leaning esp socially but economically would be nice too I'm a strong supporter of unions and the right to live in good health.
It's very nice to have people to talk to about political topics when most people see it as taboo and won't engage very much. ):
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26, mostly ancom vibes here ✨
I’m the leftist your parents warned you about who wants to give you healthcare and food
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I'm not sure if i'm a communist, or a socialist.... definitely want more socialist change though.
Very... Very left leaning to put it simply
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im seeing a lot of people identifying as leftists and i wonder, how many of you are in a political party? id suggest looking into the Party for Socialism and Liberation if youre in the states.
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Anarchist Lefty, please don't friend me if you're a shitlib I don't have the energy to ease your conscience all the time.
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I'm an old leftist - just popping in for solidarity's sake.
Going by some of the comments here, people don't get left: Biden is not "left". And YES, I voted for him, he was our most viable option for getting Combover Caligula out. But he's actually more than a bit right of center,
Take a few minutes to explore here. Some of you may be surprised:
Reply by Poe_thetic_lie_sense
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Millennial here reporting in to say we love you. We appreciate you. We're tired but still willing to fight the fight. It's good to have some help!
Reply by Jeff Pohlmeyer
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I might qualify if you spell Zoomer with a "B"
But I live in Texas and I have a cat, if that helps.
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I'm not sure where I would peg myself on the political spectrum. Given what I have witnessed in the past twenty years of my life, I have to say that I am skeptical (at best) of consensus politics - internationalism, neoconservatism, open borders, free trade deals, etc. Of course that sort of skepticism isn't necessarily shared by those just on the left; I'm aware that there's a VERY online contingent of right wingers who share those apprehensions to some degree. I wouldn't say that I am a leftist because the idea of revolution resulting in positive change is utopian. I'm more of a social democrat; a New Deal Democrat but without a particularly strong identification with the Democrats.
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Hello, fellow communist identifying perselves. I can never find the time or focus to read/listen to theory but I would love to have a conversation with an Anarchist onsite & I could prolly switch to identity as one.
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gen z radical leftist right here!! i am very invested in activism, but come from a conservative family so i don't get a lot of opportunities to use my voice.
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I guess I’d be considered leftist! I’m still figuring it all out. I do know for sure that I hate current US politicians.
Reply by Cashlin
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cool thread. i personally think classifications and labels while useful can be tricky and make it difficult to communicate with pissed off people on the other side what ideals you actually stand for when all they know is irrational skews, lies, or dramatic political events and eras that are tied to certain terms. i guess its good to be a leftist or progressive but even on twitter i see leftist coming to be the new term that is starting to get hijacked the way liberal was, but maybe that's just the natural result of terms getting recognition and getting bigger or movements aging and having normal human problems? idk.
i do sometimes try to avoid politics even though everything is political because you just need to focus on life and crafts itself without going into an ethics wormhole all the time, but i also find myself more and more intrigued with how ethics is connected to everything (especially now that environmental disaster is apparently impending)
anyways i guess i mean its better to have good ideals and want to promote things like rank choice voting, ubi, defund or abolishing police etc. in ways that logistically will work and have the best ethical outcome but i wouldn't ever trick myself into thinking everyone can sit around typing walls of text to try but fail at pinpointing what their ideal for some progressive philosophy is, i guess i just felt like leaving a more complicated post that outlines some of the characteristics and considerations i've noticed the last few years
Reply by Declan Seeto
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I've identified as leftist for what seems like nearly two years now and I'm still not sure where I lie. At any given moment I can be anywhere between ancom and demsoc.
Maybe I'll find my true beliefs some day. Whether it comes through discussion with other leftists I encounter or reading theory or whatever - I dunno.
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Anarchist here, but maybe more left communist, communalist or municipalist. I've been greatly influenced by the especially German and Dutch Autonomist movement and inspired by the Kurdish approach to direct democracy.