Thanks. I feel that LW’s political landscape really needs a hard-left current that would be up to our standards of reasoning&debate. There’s been a lot of thought and passion put into various left-of-liberalism philosophies in the last century, and the community needs to engage and grapple with them like it does with alt-right contrarianism, getting past inferential distances.
People have been crying out for more ideological diversity on LW and against our discourse being dominated by mainstream liberal/progressive thought. I can see them trying to add such diversity from the right, but when I’m going for a far-left perspective (often in direct opposition to the local “Weird-Right”), I feel rather alone and divorced-from-context here.
This may the most Marxian post I’ve ever given a thumbs-up to. Coherent analysis, even if I disagree with some of the claims.
Thanks. I feel that LW’s political landscape really needs a hard-left current that would be up to our standards of reasoning&debate. There’s been a lot of thought and passion put into various left-of-liberalism philosophies in the last century, and the community needs to engage and grapple with them like it does with alt-right contrarianism, getting past inferential distances.
People have been crying out for more ideological diversity on LW and against our discourse being dominated by mainstream liberal/progressive thought. I can see them trying to add such diversity from the right, but when I’m going for a far-left perspective (often in direct opposition to the local “Weird-Right”), I feel rather alone and divorced-from-context here.