• kaffiene@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It seems like a pretty standard term in political discussion. Why do you say it doesn’t refer to anything?

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      5 months ago

      It seems like a pretty standard term in political discussion.

      No, it isn’t. It’s a liberal buzzterm invented purely to facilitate liberal “botheside-ism” and nothing else - they are desperate to conflate leftist activities (such as anti-fascist or anti-racist actions leftists take) with the far right. The liberals who mindlessly gibber about the (supposed) “far left” doesn’t even understand why we bother discerning the far right from the bog-standard right (of which liberal ideology is a part of).

      There is no such thing as a “far left” - you’re either left or you’re not. Anarchism isn’t “further” left than Maoism - Mutualism isn’t “further left” than Liberation Theology.