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Left-wing out-group: Everyone, especially other leftists
I mean, it doesn't have anything to do with the ideology, but the far left is famously like that.
I don't usually use this expression, but you might need to touch grass. I pretty regularly hang out with far left people and other than debates over personal philosophy we're all pretty chill. The internet is not an accurate representation of any actual social dynamics.
Yup. That's some truth.
All my liberal homies smoke weed and shoot the shit and try to vote for people who don't want to kill outgroups. So agreed, he needs to touch grass.
The ones I'm thinking of would not appreciate being called "liberal".
Well, I meant my lefty friends. If you look at my comment history, I'm not much a liberal myself, but I don't consider tankies on the left. I consider them authoritarian fuckbags that will say anything to get power. Just like authoritarian fuckbags on the right.
I consider them flat Earth theorists that weren't right-wing enough for the normal conspiracy pipeline. The Stalin stuff is pretty much just decoration.
I've seen plenty of anarchist gatekeeping, too, although when you haven't organised in the first place there's less to split.
TBH there's barely a center-left where I live, even, so you're right that I wouldn't know. However, the history of real-world Western socialist organisations doesn't inspire confidence that it's any different.
to be fair, tankies arn't left wing, they fully support the most Draconian right wing solutions to everything, but pretend that their führer isn't evil or something.
Anarchists are in this picture too. Gatekeeping about who's anti-authoritarian enough is one example.
I mean, they have a point, you literally can't go "but Lenin created vanguardism" as a reason why the all powerful single party state supposedly controlled by the "will of the people" and get upset when people call you out for being an authoritarian.
Anarchists gate keeping tankies isn't some moral wrong, it's just learning from history, because they would rather work with literal Nazis/ ethno-fascists than with an anarchist, the anarchists were the first to be shot by all the fascists, German, Romanian, Italian, or Soviet.
Yeah, but even if you allow that, they'll gatekeep each other over dietary systems, for voting or not voting, over which economic systems are too market, over who was on the right side of a personal falling out, for believing in rules of any kind and on and on. There never is an end to it.
I don't know who you've been hanging out with, but anarchists don't care if you're vegan or not, and generally their issue isn't with markets, it's with the system giving all the power to a small group of feudal lords, but I think the issue is that you only know anarchists by shitty online memes, maybe you should go get in contact with your local lawn dealer
Sure. All the anarchists fucking up for the last 150 years don't count. You folks in this thread swear there's different, cool ones; they're just conveniently invisible.
And yet, pretty much none of them like ancaps. Mutualists or whatever other in-between are prime targets for purging from your not-a-political-party.
"fucking up" interesting way to spell murdered and betrayed
I'm just going to say to that, that anarchist infighting exists, and you can't just blame everything on everyone else.