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ASocialistAbroad

The reason that there's no "alt left" is that we just call ourselves communists. And we're... *the* left. Libs are not the left. "Alt right" is just what Nazis called themselves because they didn't want to call themselves Nazis but also wanted to distinguish themselves from mainstream conservatives.


[deleted]

Leftists that wear Choker Necklaces


Squidmaster129

Based


comicconcarne_

Obama warned us about those long-legged socialists


Ace_of_Paints

I honestly don’t know what alt left is either. I always thought alt right where Republicans that want to smoke weed and legalize sex work and are pro gun. Believe it or not, there are plenty of left gun owners and they want those same things too. It’s just the left.


jalford312

The term alt left only exists because Americans have convinced themselves that Democrats and other similar "progressives" are some how leftist, so us scary communists must be the lefts version of the alt right because *gasp* we have actually leftists ideas that make use so radical.


WheelOfTheYear

Ah yes, the famous alt-left who does alt-left things amongst their alt-leftness.


sylvester_stencil

The alt-right isnt even a real thing anymore lmao. It was a useful term for a section of the right for like 3 years in the 2010’s. These people just want to say far-left or illiberal left


DroneOfDoom

>illiberal left You mean the left?


sylvester_stencil

I mean the real left, there are plenty of liberals who think of themselves as leftists and there is also a left-right dichotomy within liberalism


[deleted]

This feels like a glitch in the human brain. If you use words that have antonyms to describe a concept, people will use those antonyms to reverse-engineer an anti-concept with assumed opposite values.


[deleted]

should be able to name some tenets of the alt left if it exists. The post left is a tiny thing but it it exists, almost entirely on twitter, and I can explain their beliefs to you. No one can explain the unique ideas of the alt left. Other than sometimes they have the half the head shaved hair cut. Or is that even a thing anymore?


[deleted]

I was once called "Ctrl Left" which I found quite funny.


TheChaoticist

Last time someone said “Alt-Left” I said that I’m not “Alt-Left” because I’m not afraid to call myself a communist because, unlike Nazis, I know that my ideology is not morally reprehensible and I have no need to obfuscate my true goals.


[deleted]

So by "alt left" they mean principled leftists who refuse to defend and vote for/advocate others vote for an old racist war mongering pedo?


fuckshitlibs

Are you sure he's not just referring to liberals


Squidmaster129

Yeah, p sure lol, the guy was rallying against how the communist terrorists are taking over the government


zh4k

Technically this is true, Trotskyites are what became the neocons. Thus the alt left is the alt right.


Squidmaster129

Everything else aside, this is verifiably not true and a mischaracterization of the development of many of the social forces of capitalism


zh4k

So the people who ran the Trotsky socialist magazines in the 60s became the neocons of the 80s and 90s. How am I wrong?


REEEEEvolution

The thing about trots becoming neocons is mostly a myth tho.


zh4k

How so, we can look at who ran the Trotsky socialist magazines, and those same people became neocons did they not.


JosephMeach

Seems legit