• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Okay but those radicals in question basically oppose everyone mainstream, so they’re definitely not giving respect by default.

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            1 year ago

            Far Left Radicals in Europe and the Americas are generally defined as anti-establishment, anarchist, marxist-leninist, and/or maoist.

            For just one of many examples, Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) has a couple thousand members and… oh… look at that, they’re a militant group who oppose NATO. They were originally funded by the Joseph Stalin administration in Russia.

            And this is like the best most centrist example of a legitimate radical group. They’ve got 105 year history and they avoided spoiling Democrat candidates in elections for over 30 years. But they’re still violent extremists who advocate for foreign dictatorships.

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              CPUSA is campist, which is a common tendency in every large political bloc. Those who dogmatically defend the US and NATO are not much different from those who dogmatically oppose them, intellectually speaking. When looking outside the overton window campists can seem like the only representatives of their ideological tendency, but they’re just the most visible. Campists who support the status quo fly under the radar due to their sheer number; it’s the default position for those who have not developed strong political opinions of their own.