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How tf does one become ultraleft? (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm almost convinced that people don't become ultraleft; they end up ultraleft. What type of confusion, abuse, bigotry, whatever- it doesn't matter- turns someone into an ultraleft?

I'm at my wits end, are they just neoliberals that haven't accepted that fact?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure there's plenty of ways to arrive at ultraleftism. One is failing to shed the propaganda you've been fed your entire life, another is trying to triangulate "being on the left" and "being taken seriously by liberals" which necessitates condemning AES, and yet another might be "trying to make money on the maga communism circuit", along with "paid by the FBI".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Not leftist self-criticism but leftist self-contempt