ID: WookieeMark @EvilGenXer posted:

"OK so look, Capitalism is right wing.

Period.

If you are pro-capitalism, you are Right Wing.

There is no pro-capitalist Left. That’s a polite fiction in the US that no one can afford any longer as the ecosystem is actually collapsing around us."

  • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    Politically speaking, I don’t believe there’s such thing as “right” or “left” except in the relative sense. Even then it’s questionable.

    Edit: I’m really curious about what people downvoting think it fundamentally means for there to be an absolute political “center” from which there is an objective “right” wing and an objective “left” wing. Furthermore, I’d like to know what advantages this model has that makes you value it so much.

    • Spaniard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      59 minutes ago

      I agree, politics aren’t a line where some are in the right, some in the left and the center is some kind of mythological beast (if they are we are screwed, but they aren’t)

      Politics are complicated, politicians are simple. Capitalism isn’t an ideology it’s an economic system, it’s as good or as bad as the mechanisms put in place to govern/control/rule it. It’s supposed to be free but it can’t be because no one can’t trust corporations, it’s also not supposed to be controlled by the State but when they inject money in it that’s what they are doing.

      Capitalism can work in any kind of environment, and fail too.

      Personally I believe democracy is failing, technofeudalism is coming in hard for it. In my country we replaced nobility with politicians and they are the caste, the president is the King, if you defy the party stand you are kicked out, they claim to be socialdemocrats but all the social aspects are worse than 5, 10, and 20 years ago and although keynesian economics plays a part on the reason I believe it’s democracy’s fault.