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[-] zout@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

You should look into the German "Rote Armee Fraction", and review if what you view as the extreme left is really that far left.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Guess what: sharing goals with extremists doesn't mean that you approve of the methods that make them extremists. To equate everything far left of neoliberalism with groups like the RAF is as reductive and frankly bigoted as equating all Muslims with isis or al quaeda.

[-] zout@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

True, but that argument can be made both ways. I was simply trying to point out that the definition of far left in the meme doesn't compute with the memories from my youth.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Your memories of extremists. Just because the definition of this post doesn't fit the propaganda we were all spoon fed by Reaganites, Bushites and Clintonites doesn't mean that it's wrong. On the contrary, it's many times more representative of far left thought and behaviour in general than RAF were.

They were an outlier of an outlier, whereas the idea that everything that's necessary for survival should be freely available to everyone is one of the few things that all the different flavours of rational far left agree on.

[-] orrk@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Hilariously, the far right paramilitary organizations in both Germany and America are just as bad as the RAF was, only difference is that they were far right, and the police didn't care about them as much...

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That's kinda like saying that one should look into the Bolsheviks, if someone expresses an interest in Communism. Sure the Bolsheviks managed to take over the USSR, but they almost didn't, and they wouldn't have been thrown in the gulag, had the Menchaviks gotten in power. Stalin was so very harmful to the revolution, that even Lenin said directly, "Don't let Stalin take over."

Fucking Wilson ruined everything.

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