I completely agree with you on the first :) which is why I’ve started going by humanist rather than leftist. I ultimately care about people and want to have a system where they have all the needs met, however we can achieve it without harming others or the environment.

I get that ideas thought out by Marx or Adam Smith seem really cool (I think they’re cool too) but people don’t need to think of these as basically religions and defend all of it or try to practice all of it to the letter of the text. These are there how people thought things worked conceived by really smart people, but still people. We have to constantly mix and match, improve and question theories to make progress.

As for Lemmy, it makes me slightly sad because the devs seem like really kind people in their interactions who grew dissatisfied with the system they were brought up with and decided to go in the polar opposite direction, to the opposite extreme. I’m hoping that once we see the community grow beyond the original membership numbers of lemmy.ml+lemmygrad (10k+7k at worst), it will be less of an echo chamber.