• ɯᴉuoʇuɐ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    leftism is defined by opposition to the status quo

    You’ve just introduced a whole other definition of leftism. Also it seems to mean that no leftist society could exist in practice.

    the french monarchy was capitalist

    From what I can figure out, it was still in principle feudal but moving towards capitalism due to the growth of the bourgeois class. Is that correct?

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      1 hour ago

      opposition to the status quo is the definition of leftism, but anyone can be forgiven for not understanding this since westerners define it in the same terms as classical liberalism due to monarchies still (barely) being the status quo back then (and still existing to this day); back then, liberalism was “left” of that.

      now-a-days neo-liberalism is the dominant hegemony and it’s pro-capitalist; anything to the left of that is modern day leftism.