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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    But their actual plan for the socialist state “withering way” amounts to pixie tears and fairy dust.

    A lot of people say that about communism in general. There’s quite a few prominent leftist ideologies that are utopian and I wouldn’t use that to claim they’re not actually leftist.

    People who theoretically want leftism but have no plan of action to achieve it are just liberals.

    I don’t understand how that would make it liberalism. That’d just make them impractical or utopian or maybe even half-baked but I see no reason to claim they’re not leftist. “Leftist” isn’t a guarantee of quality in itself, after all. It’s just a vague grouping of very distinct ideologies.

    I’m not entirely sure about this one but wasn’t Marx’s ideas also at least somewhat without a proper plan of action since it was rather a vision of things to come than a guide?