I’ve run across these terms several times, but without enough context to figure out what they mean. Could someone help me out, please?

    • Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago
      1. Probably ≠ all
      2. Nope, if you do (after Deng for China, after Stalin for USSR, for other time periods you could be a leftist) and have extensively learned about it you probably think you’re a leftist but you’re actually a rightist. Think about how exactly the sum of their policies align with left values more than right values.
      • Move to lemm.ee@lemmy.world
        53·
        1 year ago

        Nope, if you do (after Deng for China, after Stalin for USSR, for other time periods you could be a leftist) and have extensively learned about it you probably think you’re a leftist but you’re actually a rightist.

        So you think Jeremy Corbyn isn’t left? Lmao. What about Lula? Every Cuban politician?

        Think about how exactly the sum of their policies align with left values more than right values.

        This is you trying to re-align left vs right as culture instead of economic. It’s seriously america-brained bollocks and is not how anyone in the rest of the world views left vs right.

    • Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      May I introduce you to the Far Right in America? They are often keen to downplay any Russian acts of aggression. ETA: Not saying that they would fit the definition of tankies, just that you don’t have to be a leftist to (overtly or tacitly) support Russia.

      G.O.P.’s Far Right Seeks to Use Defense Bill to Defund Ukraine War Effort

      The group’s proposals have no chance of passage, but they have further mired the military spending bill in a partisan fight and highlighted Republican divisions over the war.

      https://archive.is/2023.07.13-123054/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/us/politics/defense-bill-republicans-ukraine-war.html