ID: WookieeMark @EvilGenXer posted:

"OK so look, Capitalism is right wing.

Period.

If you are pro-capitalism, you are Right Wing.

There is no pro-capitalist Left. That’s a polite fiction in the US that no one can afford any longer as the ecosystem is actually collapsing around us."

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
    476·
    18 小时前

    Left and right are completely arbitrary semantic categories so you can define them however you like, as long as it has a clear and internally consistent definition.

    I’ve even seen ancaps who have almost the same definition as I do but completely reversed which is pretty funny but also gives me a headache.

    • umbrella
      82·
      12 小时前

      left = not capitalism

      right = capitalism

      this definition has formed since more or less (…) since the french revolution and has consolidated along with capitalism itself.

      • Aqarius@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 小时前

        Woll, not that far back, after all the terms came later, but it was fairly set by the turn of the century.

      • alcoholicorn
        1·
        11 小时前

        AFAIK, the bourgeoisie were on the left side of the national convention during the French Revolution; though the conflict between the bourgeoisie and the working class was a vital part in its failure; the bourgeoisie trying to stop progress and liquidate the very people they depended on for power once further progress conflicted with their class interests, leaving no means to fight back against the forces of reaction.

        I could be wrong, I haven’t read much about the french revolution.

        I think 1848 is where the contradiction became more prominent.