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I think we want to avoid coupling men’s rights and issues to sexism, alt-right, Trumpism, you name it. Not that that always happens (r/mensrights f ex isn’t so bad as some people think it is) but the risk is always there.
Some people here want the sub to be for ‘moderate’ men’s advocates, or even something between r/mensrights and r/menslib. They shun every thought that even vaguely smells of traditionalism and rather avoid evpsych. I’m not one of them, but not everyone here has to be the same.
I’d like to figure out a theory how male competitiveness - AND female preferences for competitive males, this is crucial - brought us this totally insane neoliberal capitalism including limitless growth and pollution, but I never found the time to formulate it right. That would be real left wing male advocacy imho.
We're socialists, as Hitler, Gevara, Pol Pot, Stalin, Marx
The left-right divide is nowadays understood as encompassing three separate questions:
repartition of wealth, with equality being left and disparity being right
authority, with the right favouring more authoritarian policies such as more policing, harsher sentences or a stronger executive, and the left favouring a more reparative justice and a more pluralist political syste
individual freedom, with the right favouring traditionnal social structures and the left prefering individual life choices (regarding sex, drugs, children...)
I would add the outgroup-ingroup divide, with the left being more favourable to the inclusion of as many people (and/or animals) as possible in the ingroup and the right being more restricted in who they consider peers.
Sometimes "leftists" will be on the right or even the far right on some axis. Anybody who is left on any axis can have a claim to be "leftwing" and that sub reflects that well.
You can find garden variety marxists, social libertarians, anti-authoritarians, and humanists or vegetarians rubbing elbows in here. It's quite pleasant as it favours rich debate and wards off the Reddit echo chamber effect to a certain extent.
The number one reason I am a leftist (I prefer the term liberal) is equality. I think everyone should be treated equally as individuals. This is why I have a hard time supporting feminism because a lot of feminists either disregard, downplay, or even detest men’s rights.
welcome back gregor strasser
