• average650@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sorry, I misread what you wrong and thus was very unclear. My mistake.

    They explicitly support “a universal healthcare system as well as an economy containing widespread distribution of productive property, in particular increased worker ownership and management of their production.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Solidarity_Party

    If you view that as supporting the status quo, then I don’t think I understand your position.

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      1 year ago

      My position (well, the reality) is that it doesn’t matter if you support workers rights if you’re also opposed to some people’s human rights, and that it is literally impossible to support universal healthcare while opposing abortion. The Nazis called themselves socialists and were all for (some) workers rights, that doesn’t make them leftist, on anything.

      There is no such thing as socially one way (left/right) and economically the other since the two (social and economical) are inextricably linked, and being conservative on one automatically means you are a hindrance (at best) to progress on the other.

      Anyone who tells themselves otherwise is just doing mental gymnastics to defend their cognitive dissonance, while serving those at the top, who are known to co-opt leftist ideas to get in to power.