I wrote this almost an exact year before publishing. I find it relevent.
What is considered leftist is a question that seems important to this time, as at this point it seems the most leftist popular minds in the United States today aren’t communist or anarchist, but rather seem to be “Social Democrats”, like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. So, begs the question, who is considered truly leftist? When a communist or anarchist thinks of a leftist they think of Josef Stalin, Vladimir Lenin and Kropotkin, not liberals like Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden. Conservatives would consider anybody in the Democratic Party a raging socialist who will defend Josef Stalin any day. I do not consider liberals leftist. They are capitalists, clear as day. They serve the same richmen* as the conservatives, albeit slightly less. But are Social Democrats (SocDem, shortened.) leftists? They are. But are they very leftist? No, not at all. They still serve the rich, just less. Now, are Democratic Socialists (DemSoc, shortened.) leftists? Yes, they are too. They are flawed socialists, but definitely leftists. Now, of course, we see that communists and anarchists are leftists. That is a full guarantee. They might argue every two days but they are still leftist comrades. Now, there is an extremely ignorant question: "Were the Nazis leftist?". I see this question often asked between ultra-rightist conservatives. To say the least, definitely not. They supported privatization and businesses. Their party's name was a misnomer. Thank you for reading. * Richmen = Bourgeoisie. I use this term sometimes as a more simple term.
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I recently saw a Birdargument that I thought was so stupid that I need to make a single paper dedicated to how idiotic it is. It goes: "If you are dissatisfied with Minimum-Wage jobs, then just don't do Minimum-Wage Labour!" or something along those lines. Now, in the 21st Century, I have not once heard someone in this century be satisfied with the MW (For this paper we will refer to the Minimum Wage as the MW). Due to this, the argument is a paradox. If all MW workers just start working better, and all become doctors and lawyers like their moms told them to, then there will be a deficit in this sort of labour, which will then have a good pay. So, as it isn't the hardest job, it will have a whole lot of people coming in. Now it is again MW, or perhaps the medical and legal pursuits become the MW job. That is my basic premise to my counter-argument. Is it good? No, but I tried, okay? My counter-argument is not Socialistic, too. I hope you shall now prevent yourself from making an argument similar to this one.
† A "Birdargument" is a Twitter-esque style argument, which is based on a fallacy but one that is stubborn and not easily counter-able for the average Internet Debater; The term may also apply to arguments where often the two sides shout fallacy littered points and later devolve into insults. PERSONAL PROPERTY VS PRIVATE PROPERTY
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