So, based on a brief (reading Bremainers' posts is rather too cringy for me) discussion I had with TheLeft and Muizer, I was wondering what the prerequisites are for a group to call itself "Left" or "Leftist", in our Post-Soviet world.
Without too much ado, here is what got me thinking about this:
Here's my original post:
Here's the reply I got:
Rather rude, I 'd say, to have my position being called illiterate, without explaining what the literate position would be. The gist of it, seems to be that "you don't have to be a Leninist or something" to be lefty.
So, we have some idea of what you don't HAVE TO be. But what do you HAVE to be, in order to be a lefty? To make matters worse, for some reason, "Nazis are right wingers" (wot?), which somehow complicates things further.
As if THAT wasn't enough here's Muizer, upon my pointing out that Nazis are actually National SOCIALISTS:
And there goes the right to self-determination, right out of the window. It seems that if you are a right winger, you can be a nazi, and if you're a nazi, you can't define yourself as a socialist, in a (western) society where pretty much anyone can define themselves as therianthropes, butteflies, cats, dogs, and whatnot.
So, the question(s),
How does one define a left-leftist group in the modern EU (and the west in general)?
Are (or rather were) the nazis a Socialist group or not?
I read that you cannot define yourself as a nationalist and a socialist, because it's self-contradictory, but I don't see how nationalisation of the means of production internally, ie within the society a party rules, has to do with foreign policy, ie how foreign nationals are treated etc.
I considered that this would be an issue for the academy, since it's not really Brexit-related (not directly, at least).