ID: WookieeMark @EvilGenXer posted:

"OK so look, Capitalism is right wing.

Period.

If you are pro-capitalism, you are Right Wing.

There is no pro-capitalist Left. That’s a polite fiction in the US that no one can afford any longer as the ecosystem is actually collapsing around us."

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
    5310·
    1 day ago

    Left and right are completely arbitrary semantic categories so you can define them however you like, as long as it has a clear and internally consistent definition.

    I’ve even seen ancaps who have almost the same definition as I do but completely reversed which is pretty funny but also gives me a headache.

    • umbrella@lemmy.ml
      117·
      21 hours ago

      left = not capitalism

      right = capitalism

      this definition has formed since more or less (…) since the french revolution and has consolidated along with capitalism itself.

      • njm1314@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 hours ago

        I wouldn’t go that far, in a lot of ways capitalism was the left wing at the time. That was a liberal, ie capitalist, Revolution. Basically all the revolutions between the American Revolution up to 1848 were liberal and capitalist revolutions.

      • Aqarius@lemmy.world
        3·
        17 hours ago

        Woll, not that far back, after all the terms came later, but it was fairly set by the turn of the century.