• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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      it comes down to capitalism vs socialism.

      progressive + capitalist = liberal

      progressive + socialist = leftist

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          leftist is pretty vague still because others are leftist too but each other’s mortal enemies like like anarchists and communists.

          you have to study political theories to understand what they actually mean. most people calling themselves leftist in the united states are democrat-socialist because they don’t understand what socialism is due to not reading any sort of political theory.

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      This. Never understood the term in the first place, is this something I’m not american enough to understand? Isn’t there a substantial difference between right-liberal and left-liberal?

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        There are liberals and leftists and left leaning and libtards and centrists and left leaning center and center leaning left and progressives and I have no clue what’s going onnnnnnnnn