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There are plenty more examples of this.

Say, the political spectrum. We take fulll equality as radical left and full inequality as radical right. But actually, right is about the few having all the economic means and power, so, the opposite is many holding these means and power, and those from few not having them. So, basically, society turning billionaires into slaves, not equals, or imprisoning/exiling/otherwise oppressing them.

This is what happens through many revolutions - world can be way more left than “radical left”. But ultimately, after everything is settled, this does not make too much political sense (and neither does the current right-leaning system), so people settle for equality for everyone. As a neutral point, not something radical.

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MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The many having rights and the few being oppressed is how it is for gender. And the people who support that are still right wing. So it’s more like a sideways horseshoe where left is actually the middle, and the ends are both on the right

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- Allero@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Who is the “few” in this context, if I may ask? Nonbinaries?
  
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  - MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Trans people of all genders
    
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    Allero@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Ah, fair enough
    
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birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
“Radical left” as you propose doesn’t exist. In a truly equal society, billionnaires don’t exist and instead those that would’ve been, would’ve worked the same jobs as anyone else.

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- Allero@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It does not exist because it doesn’t make too much sense in the long run. Besides, people who want to dominate others would rather join right, as there are more slaves to work with.
  
  Doesn’t mean it cannot exist, and it temporarily existed in many revolutionary societies as a result of radical offset.
  
  I’m not saying that this “many dominating few” kind of thing should exist. Neither do I want for the few to dominate many.
  
  I prefer neutrality, and that comes with equality. This is true center, and the only meaningful way to go.
  
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  - birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I don’t trust the billionnaires to support neutrality. Whenever they ever have an ability to influence, they can and will abuse it to kick people down the ladder.
    
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    Allero@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Which is why they should not have any more power (including economic power) than anyone else.
    
    Billionaires should cease to exist, not necessarily by being dead, but by being stripped of their hoarded riches.
    
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  - floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Aww— leaky Nazi cunt has a cry cry
    
    Kill yourself
    
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floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Aww— leaky Nazi cunt has a cry cry

Kill yourself

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