Define the far-left

[Laika]

I see much talk about the “far left” these days. But does anyone actually know who or what they mean? Is there any agreement on what it means?

Or is everyone an evil “socialist” because they like free stuff and want to redistribute your money to their wallet?

You decide!

 

[Spirit of Light]

I see much talk about the “far left” these days. But does anyone actually know who or what they mean? Is there any agreement on what it means?

Or is everyone an evil “socialist” because they like free stuff and want to redistribute your money to their wallet?

You decide!

Far left is Communism, and Marxism, Anarchism.
Maybe only a few on this forum can be seen as far left, the rest of us "lefties" are middle to left or just left, but not extreme left.

 

[Ellen Brown]

Sometimes I'm seen as far left but consider myself a centrist. Actually, perhaps far right is better?

 

[Spirit of Light]

Sometimes I'm seen as far left but consider myself a centrist. Actually, perhaps far right is better?

Far-Right is NEVER better

 

[sun rise]

Left/right is only one dimension. I'm socially liberal, anti authoritarian, fiscally conservative, believe in government regulation of big business but much more freedom for small business so what does that make me?

 

[Spirit of Light]

Left/right is only one dimension. I'm socially liberal, anti authoritarian, fiscally conservative, believe in government regulation of big business but much more freedom for small business so what does that make me?

A big mess

 

[sun rise]

A big mess

The trump-loving right thinks of me as one of those damn hippie, flag burning, socialist, communist evil liberals.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I see much talk about the “far left” these days. But does anyone actually know who or what they mean? Is there any agreement on what it means?

Or is everyone an evil “socialist” because they like free stuff and want to redistribute your money to their wallet?

You decide!

The socialist left , as far as I'm concerned, entails the systematic loss of individual and economic freedom at the expense of said promises of equality, distribution of wealth, environmentalism, and societal equanimity.

 

[Estro Felino]

Marxism. Left is Socialism.
Mussolini was a staunch socialist but Italian Socialism which has a great tradition, is for state capitalism, that is , the state saves eneterprises factories and firms, through treasury or state banks, which make up the public assets.

Through these assets the state build great infrastructures and grants public free healthcare, public free education and so on.

This is called IRI formula

 

[Twilight Hue]

Far-Right is NEVER better

That's true. Extremes are never beneficial overall.

 

[Mindmaster]

I see much talk about the “far left” these days. But does anyone actually know who or what they mean? Is there any agreement on what it means?

Or is everyone an evil “socialist” because they like free stuff and want to redistribute your money to their wallet?

You decide!

Kinda hard without a "time bracket", but I think communism and socialism are pretty universally left. Anarchism is complicated and sort of rejection of any of those ideologies to a certain extent, so I find it hard to clearly align it either way.

Nazism was "extremely left" in the context of the rather conservative time period of the 1920's to mid 1940, but it would be seen as pretty tame by modern standards and seem a bit middle-left or centrist. (Grievous acts of Hitler and Co. notwithstanding.)

 

[blü 2]

Far left is Communism, and Marxism, Anarchism.
Maybe only a few on this forum can be seen as far left, the rest of us "lefties" are middle to left or just left, but not extreme left.

I'd argue that despite its historical origins, anarchy is a far-right trait these days ─ 'I'm not accountable, I'm my own law.'

 

[Father Heathen]

Someone actually picked nazism and fascism as "far left"?

Our education system really does suck.

 

[Estro Felino]

Yeah until he betrayed pretty much all of his former comrades and broke up every other union in italy.

Because the "comrades" were too Bolshevik and fascinated by Russian Revolution...

 

[Estro Felino]

Someone actually picked nazism and fascism as "far left"?

Our education system really does suck.

But Mussolini was a socialist...
Fascists were belligerent Nationalists.

 

[PureX]

Anyone that suggests that I can't do whatever I want whenever I want for whatever reason I want is a liberal, communist, pinko, lying, scumbag.

Freedom = total selfishness.

And anyone that says otherwise is the ENEMY.

 

[usfan]

Easy. The far left is obsessed with labels..

 

[Father Heathen]

Anyone that suggests that I can't do whatever I want whenever I want for whatever reason I want is a liberal, communist, pinko, lying, scumbag.

Freedom = total selfishness.

And anyone that says otherwise is the ENEMY.

Eh? The right most certainly isn't about unbridled freedom, considering their history with LGBT rights, reproductive rights, sexual liberty, cannabis legalization, compulsory pledge/anthem/prayer, flag burning, etc.

 

[Heyo]

It's always a question of how much of the spectrum you see. In the US the dems may be left and the reps right. But from a European point of view they are the far right and crazy right.

 

[ChristineM]

Easy. The far left is obsessed with labels..

Are you putting a label on the far left?