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I don't like it because it feels like it allows people to stop thinking further beyond "I'm not a drab and lame liberal, I'm something a little cooler and more radical" and they don't really think farther than that. They stop examining their beliefs and worldviews and analyzing the world. They were chill with Bernie and want something a little more than the DNC has to offer (what that is, who knows) and that's good enough. Often, they're still a little scared of bandying about the "socialism" s-word.
This isn't to say that I think every person with politics to the left Elizabeth Warren needs to become a scholar of theory and pinpoint their tendency like "oh yes, I'm a MLM-Gonzaloist Thought." I do wish people would be less skittish around the s-word though, and maybe just a super high-level overview of what Marx was laying down, like a brief idea of the labor theory of value. Or even a "socialism isn't just the government doing things" type of understanding.
So yes, I also feel the yuck and do whatever I can to avoid saying "leftism" and identify as a socialist/Marxist/communist to try to be an example of that change I'd like to see.