• ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    That’s pretty simplistic and puts the cart before the horse. Political coalitions are not a new phenomenon, nor are picking up your politics from your social connections. That was exactly how politics worked in Rome. Hell in Constantinople their coalitions straight up sponsored chariot racing teams and ended up burning the city down https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots . Your membership in a coalition was dependent on who you received patronage from.

    My point is, from the essence, from it’s meaning to the days of the third estate, breaking down power structures is left wing.