The left is always pro-censorship, from the French Revolution to the Bolsheviks to today’s identity left. The right stands for freedom. The left supports free speech to the extent it can be used to seize power, then it squashes the right absolutely.
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Replying to @tomxhart @charlesmurray
The freedom that the right stands for was the freedom to own slaves. Now it stands for the freedom to rent them.
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Replying to @WillShetterly @charlesmurray
The left merely changes private slavery of a sort that allows for a liberty-loving elite into an absolute slavery in obedience to the state. The left creates societies, such as the USSR, where no one is free and everyone is a slave.
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Replying to @tomxhart @charlesmurray
Do you think Orwell wasn't a leftist? “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.” —George Orwell
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Replying to @WillShetterly @charlesmurray
Orwell was on the left initially. Then he realised it results in mass murder and doesn’t work. His later work is anti-socialist—officially he clung on to calling himself a leftist, but he was leaving the left as he died (see, cooperating with MI5 against commies).
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Replying to @tomxhart @charlesmurray
Okay, your ideology is so profound you cannot even read what he said, or understand that his list was not of communists in general but of Stalinists in particular.
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Replying to @WillShetterly @charlesmurray
Stalinists put a stop to the leftward insanity spiral, as Cromwell did during the English Civil War, but he was still the left. Trotskyists are even more bloodthirsty than Stalinists, and they’re both bad—being leftists.
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Replying to @tomxhart @charlesmurray
Yes, there are authoritarian leftists. Who denied that? Are you one of the ahistorical sorts who insist fascists are leftists?
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Replying to @WillShetterly @charlesmurray
The roots of fascism are the same as Bolshevism: populism. Fascism is a rightist attempt to use leftist methods to create a new hierarchy—ultimately this fails because it moves leftwards. It just works a little better than full on leftism.
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Replying to @tomxhart @charlesmurray
Ah, we can agree on your first sentence. However, you're still operating in a binary universe when you insist populism is a leftist method. Though you are right that the people are usually to the left of their rulers.
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The universe is divided in truth & falsehood, hence its binary nature. Populism isn’t a leftist method; it’s rightist relative to the 20th century, that’s all. People are usually more conservative than their rulers, and they’re dragged left by a section of the elite.
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