Where do you fall on the "political spectrum"

[SAINT]

Your Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: 0.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.56

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

You can't be this dense - the CPUSA, Black Panther Party, Black Liberation Army, Socialist Workers' Party, United Auto Workers, The African Blood Brotherhood, etc. were all Leftist, socialist, or communist organizations - all of them fought for rights - all of them advocated for greater social equality especially for Black liberation and women's liberation.

You had those movements, but ultimately government decided what was best. And didn't CIA take most them out? How many politicians advocating for things like free healthcare and free schooling?


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Yo shyt says Communism/Anarchist

 

[Paper Boi]

somewhere in the section labeled anarcho communism, although i'm not sure i'd label myself that.

 

[BaldingSoHard]

 

[EndDomination]

Give us a history lesson on the civil rights movement participants. Were they far left extremists?

Putting "extremist" in there is loaded and a little embarrassing for someone not writing a shytty WSJ op-ed - but yes a massive number of them were.

From Du Bois on through - the US anti-communist efforts destroyed the civil rights movement in many ways. From Richard Wright, to WEB Du Bois to CLR James, to Bayard Rustin, Ella Baker and A. Philip Randolph. The Black Panther Party immediately after as well.

How deep of a history do you want?

 

[All Women Are Queens]

-1.88
-2.0

 

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

Economic Left/Right: -1.5
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.15

 

[EndDomination]

You had those movements, but ultimately government decided what was best. And didn't CIA take most them out? How many politicians advocating for things like free healthcare and free schooling?


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Yo shyt says Communism/Anarchist

The government's hand was forced - it helped that there was direct support from the USSR and the Leftist parties in power in Western Europe, and West Africa.

Not sure what's funny about a coherent political ideology that advocates for the power to be concentrated democratically in the hands of the people - and not in large-scale corporations and megalomaniac millionaires.

 

[EndDomination]

somewhere in the section labeled anarcho communism, although i'm not sure i'd label myself that.

Check out this introduction:

 

[EndDomination]

The test is built to make you liberal left with some very obvious questions. Plus there no questions on race, 90% of the coli would be super right wing if you brought those up.

There's a video of plenty of cacs getting right-wing on that - the quiz isn't loaded - just a lot of the Coli isn't as right-wing as you think they are.

The racial dynamics questions (there are only two) would also push the Coli more to the left than to the right.

 

[The Guru]

Ultra rich, corporate world and political establishment can not be trusted on their own to serve the best interests of the people. People who don't harm others should be left to their own devices as much as possible. However there are limits/exceptions

 

[Wildhundreds]

Putting "extremist" in there is loaded and a little embarrassing for someone not writing a shytty WSJ op-ed - but yes a massive number of them were.

From Du Bois on through - the US anti-communist efforts destroyed the civil rights movement in many ways. From Richard Wright, to WEB Du Bois to CLR James, to Bayard Rustin, Ella Baker and A. Philip Randolph. The Black Panther Party immediately after as well.

How deep of a history do you want?

Run down the legislation they helped get through..

 

[Paper Boi]

Check out this introduction:

i don't know if i need a primer on it, but i'll check it anyway

it's not so much that i don't think i'm an anarcho communist/or hold the values to put me in that spot on the spectrum as much as i've met other people who identify as it, namely white people, and it makes me dislike the label with how they're representing it.

 

[Threnody]

I think America should be a dictatorship ruled by Kayne West and Azealia Banks


Economic Left/Right: 1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.92

 

[EndDomination]

i don't know if i need a primer on it, but i'll check it anyway

it's not so much that i don't think i'm an anarcho communist/or hold the values to put me in that spot on the spectrum as much as i've met other people who identify as it, namely white people, and it makes me dislike the label with how they're representing it.

I've observed the same. Which is why I've found Lorenzo Ervin a few other former Black Panthers to be so helpful in describing an ideology that puts issues of Black liberation to the forefront - with some committed ideology second. Kind of like what Du Bois and Huey did to Marxism - centered it on Blackness first and foremost and how we as Black people get free.