Spectre@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 20 hours agoDemocrats: Stop dividing the leftlemmy.mlimagemessage-square127fedilinkarrow-up1520
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minus-squareɯᴉuoʇuɐ@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 hours ago The political terms “right” and “left” have meant the same thing since the French Revolution. the weakening or abolishment of capitalism - the traditional dividing line of left and right Wasn’t the French revolution just abolishing feudalism and the monarchy?
minus-squareNuclearDolphin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 hour agoUnder feudalism: Left is about abolishing feudalism and the monarchy. Right is about preserving them. Under capitalism: Left is about abolishing capitalism and the bourgeoisie. Right is about preserving them.
minus-squareeldavi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 hour agoleftism is defined by opposition to the status quo. the french monarchy was capitalist as well as the status quo at the time; we still have monarchies and capitalism is unquestionably the status quo.
Wasn’t the French revolution just abolishing feudalism and the monarchy?
Under feudalism: Left is about abolishing feudalism and the monarchy. Right is about preserving them.
Under capitalism: Left is about abolishing capitalism and the bourgeoisie. Right is about preserving them.
leftism is defined by opposition to the status quo. the french monarchy was capitalist as well as the status quo at the time; we still have monarchies and capitalism is unquestionably the status quo.