My other comment about alternative social media attracting extremism still stands
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1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days agoThe USSR rivals the US, Japan and Germany for the most imperialist state in the past 100 years, so no, leftists are not anti-imperialist by default, that’s closer to liberals. Leftists are anti-capitalist by default.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Then maybe my understanding of “leftism” as a term is wrong. Just a little question, what political party would you consider “liberal”?
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
In the US? None, but the Libertarians probably come closest.
The US is built on imperialism so of course no party is anti-imperialist, being anti-government is as close as you can get.
Within Europe there are some parties that lean more anti-imperialist, generally green and liberal parties, but the traditional major conservative and leftist parties rarely are.