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RedPandaSage :
I’m a leftist and I want a post capitalist society. I think capitalism is the problem. That being said I participate electorally because I don’t see a revolution happening realistically and so I feel I’m just on damage control electorally while trying to spread class consciousness.
2026-02-09 01:16:37
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KikiMay :
As a leftist, I feel like something leftists don’t do well is make room for meaningful conversations about racism. I find that a lot of my fellow leftists will say capitalism is fundamentally the root of all problems and that the differences in class are what really divide people, but you can’t fully dismantle capitalism without confronting racism directly. Material equality doesn’t always equal racial justice. In fact, there are other cultures outside the U.S. and West where social/cultural hierarchies still exist even though there is economic parity. We need to be better about naming this - true solidarity acknowledges race and doesn’t erase it
2026-02-09 11:41:33
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IHaveADreamsicle :
Can’t dismantle the masters house with the masters tools
2026-02-09 07:52:45
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Elia Rayne :
I'm a leftist who recognised that there were no good options, but I'd rather vote for a slightly LESS BAD option than enable the immediate rise of a fascist state.
2026-02-09 14:21:22
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wogogi :
just to be clear, "if you're engaging in actions that support sustaining capitalism then you're not a leftist" does not mean that if you're buying groceries at your local Walmart to LIVE then you're a dirty pro capitalist lib or a hypocrite. Non-participation is generally not an option, by design.
2026-02-10 01:41:27
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Lo :
How do leftists realistically expect to remove the capitalist system when the world economy is capitalist? Even countries that do not have capitalism in the way the US does still practice some capitalism. I don’t see how a country could completely remove itself without becoming isolationist.
2026-02-09 17:34:22
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ThePatrickarchy :
Leftists views progressive policies as harm reduction whereas liberals view them as a solution (ones they often end up disagreeing with because they think the ideal is a market based solution.)
2026-02-09 08:54:35
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Alex Evenstar :
I'm open to a new system, but the thing that holds me up is *how* do we shift from a capitalist society to an alternate system. Like what does that look like. I haven't gotten an answer that made sense yet, I'm usually just told how the end goal is the best option, which I am already convinced about. Maybe I'm missing nuance but *tear down the system* doesn't sound practical unless there is a transition plan. So how would that transition occur?
2026-02-09 16:40:06
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trhro5010 :
Why does anything left of center get called “radical” but there seems to be no end to how far people are willing to go to the right. You can’t even call out textbook fascism without people crying.
2026-02-09 13:12:20
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xcyclfimnxf :
leftism is a totalitarian ideology and liberalism is not
2026-02-09 10:45:23
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Cathy :
Leftism begins with anti-imperialism imo
2026-02-09 07:46:09
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sheszyz :
I wish we could all just come together against fascism.
2026-02-09 00:57:02
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Not One Of Your Little Friends :
thats exactly why im a little torn right now. I see the current issues with ice, epstein and his cronies, trumpism, as a feature of liberalism, not a bug. while im happy everybody else is coming to the same conclusion - and things will hopefully get fixed - i still find the amount of harm being caused unconscionable. and the fact that liberals think we can just put more laws in place as alarmingly naive
2026-02-09 00:54:26
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HelloHi :
Why do leftist think capitalism can’t be fixed?
2026-02-09 00:33:08
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juicycrone :
i am once again begging everyone to read state and rev
2026-02-08 23:21:05
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rye_fi :
I feel like right-wingers, conservatives, MAGA, et al need this explainer more than liberals or actual leftists. 🥰
2026-02-09 14:06:56
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mayacreatesallthetime :
I wonder then why a leftist and liberals are lumped together at all on the left? It kinda makes no sense
2026-02-09 06:51:19
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BannockGirl :
If leftist want to end capitalism then they need to pickup a gun and use it. Making TikTok’s about capitalism is bad just makes you look sad
2026-02-09 05:40:18
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Erika S :
as a political philosopher do you think "leftism" is actually a coherent category? it seems to me that this vague term is increasingly obscuring the actual ideological underpinnings of things.
2026-02-10 03:47:23
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Smorze :
You can’t go from capitalism to socialism overnight in a perfect way so participating in the system is a necessary evil
2026-02-09 22:45:35
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Mitchell Monroe :
From this video I suppose I'm closer to a social democrat than a leftist. That said, I'm open and even understanding of a lot of the leftist ideas I hear on social media. I just don't envision a world where power systems are dismantled without being replaced by a different oppressive system. And even if I could, I'm unaware of what leftists are doing to achieve it. I'm being careful to not say they are doing nothing because they very well could be. But the most I've seen is charitable and nonprofit work done outside government. Which is good, but if thats the extent of it I don't see why they can't be done alongside pragmatic voting for harm reduction.
2026-02-08 23:46:24
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Robert :
People really can't get over the whole in-group out group thing. Arguments about labels like this is why leftist politics has stagnated. We all want to argue about who's more left.
2026-02-11 02:02:48
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AlanDaSavior :
I already mentioned this in a previous comment, but there is an irony of labeling yourself as a “Philosophy PhD Candidate”. You are drawing epistemic authority from liberal institutions. None of this authority comes “from the people”. You are legitimizing the same liberal institutions, and that’s great! Institutions confer legitimacy, it is allowed to be critique because of this legitimacy, and now people like yourself target the institution, and the institution is able to handle your critique (and even encourages). This is the feedback loop that is able to create and cycle legitimacy between the institutions and people. This recursion is a GOOD thing. I don’t like how “liberal” and “leftism” has just become about capitalism, when liberalism is much more than that. And the fact that it has just become about capitalism in itself was institutions trying to make sense of big ideas during conflicts like the Cold War. Don’t just ask “what do these ideas mean?”, ask “what are these ideas doing?”
2026-02-09 00:02:51
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Diane :
Interestingly for me, I am definitely a leftist because I believe that capitalism is the core of nearly all problems, however, I will generally support incrementalist liberal reforms because I am more interested in the things that will immediately relieve harm, than doing nearly nothing while trying to plan for a 'revolution' to take down capitalism, which I see/have seen in many leftists.
2026-02-09 11:32:49
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Ken Ashford :
The problem with leftist is that they are anti, but it's hard to discern what they are FOR, how it would work, or how we get there.
2026-02-09 17:32:46
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