my hatred to the term 'leftist' cannot be contained
like it makes no fucking sense when you actually think about it, left of what??? left wing of what??? of capital??? of liberalism??? what even constitutes someone to being a leftist? anti-capitalism? should we also group together strasserites, classical fascists, nazbols, and nazi-maoists as leftists since they are also anti-capitalist then???
it's such a vague buzzword birthed out of the artificially binary system of western electoral politics that grouped together 300 ideologies that all stand in complete and total opposition to each other, because to the average lib the concept of communism, no matter how many layers of modernization or falsifiction it's buried under, is so extreme and scary that every single 'tendency' is of the same binary catagory, with the same ideas and goals, because yes lenin and pol pot were somehow in alignment with each other.
don't even get me started on any 'left unity' party or community, aside the giga ideology shopping falsification particles eroding from that premise alone it always ends up being either filled with giga hitler MLoids or some flavor of dumb liberals larping as anarchists or demsocs. the natural conclusion of left unity is always to collapse and splinter because it requires that no tendency critiques or becomes too outspoken about their ideological differences, almost as if none of these ideologies have anything remotely similar other than vague anti-capitalism.
sigh. the consequences of popular frontism.