• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Depends on what you mean by “far.” If you mean believing in a radical restructuring of society along Communist lines, this can be done peacefully. Pacifism is an extremist position as well. Conflating “radicalism” with “violence” is just centrism at work.

    On the same hand, there are extremely violent centrists. Kissinger murdered millions of people as a liberal, for example, which is a center-right ideology. Centrism isn’t about non-violence.

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      1 year ago

      Centrism is fear of change in the now vs conservatives which is a reaction against change before.