• binux@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Similarly, If I shit and take a shower after, I’m still not clean!

    Sarcasm aside, this sentiment is oozing subjective interpretation mistaken for objective fact. Political views (like more or less any other opinions) are far more complicated than just: “if you are this one thing, you cannot be this other thing.”

    You can be fiscally right-leaning and socially left-leaning, as well as the other way around. Likewise, as painful as it may be to hear, capitalism is not mutually exclusive with leftism. By the logic of your opinion, Mamdani isn’t left-leaning either, because he’s still participating in and thereby protecting the capitalist systems of the US. It’s just a silly way of thinking.

    • marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today
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      3 months ago

      You can be fiscally right-leaning and socially left-leaning, as well as the other way around.

      No, you actually cannot logically be for the oppression of people and against the oppression of people. Being economically right wing and ‘socially’ left wing means you’re completely fine with gay slaves but if someone suggests getting rid of slavery you’re going to shoot them…

      Likewise, as painful as it may be to hear, capitalism is not mutually exclusive with leftism.

      It is, by definition. There is no possible radical change position that keep capitalism at this point in time. Every variation of capitalism has been tried and has failed.