• untakenusername@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    I’m chill with safety nets for poor people and regulations on large companies

    what I consider far left is when people start saying that the govt should own everything and there shouldn’t be private property. that’s an extreme and I am against that.

    edit: all of you downvoters are actually far left commies and I’m completely correct

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      The rational left (i.e. not the authoritarians) only want the “government” to own everything insomuch as the “government” is a profoundly democratic representative body, in an administrative capacity.

      Don’t confuse “private property” (industrial machines and other means of production held privately by an investor class in order to extract profit via the arbitrage between the productive value of employees and their flat wages) with “personal property” (your house, car, clothes, dishes, toothbrush, etc.). There aren’t many leftists who think there shouldn’t be personal property.

      • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        Private property that isn’t personal is someone elses property, and if I want to have my own property it makes sense for others to also have it

        I don’t want the govt owning my home, or having to rent from a govt, and I dont want to drink water from govt owned companies because at that point it truly is authoritarian simply because the govt has way too much power over your life

        There aren’t many leftists who think there shouldn’t be personal property.

        I’ve been on .ml before and theres more than a few people than think NK and Stalin are/were good, and are anti-private property

        edit: I honestly kinda think some of you are downvoting this because other people have downvoted this. these aren’t unpopular or insane ideas, and anyway I only used water as an example of govt ownership because that’s the first thing that came to my mind. a better example would be that I wouldn’t want my food to be grown by the govt

        • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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          2 months ago

          .ml folks aren’t far left, they’re full on authoritarian dictatorship apologists. They’re no more leftist than China is communist