I’m not a fan of Horseshoe Theory. It’s very handwavey and kind of implies centrism is the way to go, and I don’t agree with that at all. I think the status quo is crap and needs to be changed… quite a lot actually.
Anyway, I think there’s a brand of what’s generally called leftism that’s correct, and I think it’s somewhere in the libleft quadrant, if we’re to go by the political compass. And the further from that you go, the more “wrong” you start to get by giving more power to either the state (authleft), corporations (libright) or an unholy alliance of both (authright). Really, all of these to me are ways of being wrong by bestowing extreme unaccountable power to some institution or institutions, when the key should be accountability and avoiding the concentration of power (which includes wealth) into a few unelected unaccountable hands. Either of the three extremes, apart from the lower left, gives you some form of fascism, by which I mean things like: cult of personality, cult of work, making people’s well-being secondary to some abstract goals/principles like the state or meritocracy, that sort of stuff.
I don’t think that’s Horseshoe Theory though… is it?
Somebody might call it stethoscope theory, but I think that’s mostly a joke. Those other quadrants you’re talking about are not really on the left, they just pretend to be because it makes them seem more appealing. I mean, even the nazis pretended to be socialists. They just don’t get much purchase when they’re honest about what they want to do to poor people.
Now that I absolutely agree with. All try to emulate left principles to market their stuff, by which I mean they say “we get it and we care about you”.
I’m not a fan of Horseshoe Theory. It’s very handwavey and kind of implies centrism is the way to go, and I don’t agree with that at all. I think the status quo is crap and needs to be changed… quite a lot actually.
Anyway, I think there’s a brand of what’s generally called leftism that’s correct, and I think it’s somewhere in the libleft quadrant, if we’re to go by the political compass. And the further from that you go, the more “wrong” you start to get by giving more power to either the state (authleft), corporations (libright) or an unholy alliance of both (authright). Really, all of these to me are ways of being wrong by bestowing extreme unaccountable power to some institution or institutions, when the key should be accountability and avoiding the concentration of power (which includes wealth) into a few unelected unaccountable hands. Either of the three extremes, apart from the lower left, gives you some form of fascism, by which I mean things like: cult of personality, cult of work, making people’s well-being secondary to some abstract goals/principles like the state or meritocracy, that sort of stuff.
I don’t think that’s Horseshoe Theory though… is it?
Somebody might call it stethoscope theory, but I think that’s mostly a joke. Those other quadrants you’re talking about are not really on the left, they just pretend to be because it makes them seem more appealing. I mean, even the nazis pretended to be socialists. They just don’t get much purchase when they’re honest about what they want to do to poor people.
Now that I absolutely agree with. All try to emulate left principles to market their stuff, by which I mean they say “we get it and we care about you”.
Lol at “stethoscope theory” :)