I had some pretty brutal discussions with my dad who is a hardcore liberal of the âthe answer lies somewhere between the middle of left and rightâ type. He agrees with a lot of socialist stances and class war but refuses to acknowledge that a revolution is needed to achieve socialism, that killing people wouldnât make us better than the owning class and that violence is bad and that we should try to change the system by voting that voting will bring lasting change and not a revolutionâŠall this kind of crap. He thinks that i got too âradicalizedâ and that im stuck in a bubble of propaganda and now he wants to have more control of the media i consume and that when he sees me watching or reading an article that i show him the sources of these articles. He really wants me to âkeep an open-mindâ which to him literally just means returning to being a liberal. The more of these discussions i have with my father the more i feel a distance between us and i would love if we just ignored our political opinions and kept living our lives how we always did but he insists that i am being groomed by some megalomaniac organization or a goofy ah evil person to join some kind of leftist jihad: âYes you are entitled to have your opinion but you should also keep an open mind but the problem is that your opinion is not correctâ that all i hear from him.
A âleftistâ who believes thereâs an electoral solution to class war is functionally a liberal.
A âleftistâ that thinks the violent overthrow of the majority is the solution to class war is functionally a fascist.
A âleftistâ that thinks the violent overthrow of the majority is the solution to class war is functionally a fascist.
That doesnât track with my understanding. Whatâs your definition of fascism?
Edit: to be clear, a socialist revolution is the triumph of the worker majority over the oppressive owner class. Not âoverthrow of the majorityâ.
You donât think that violently installing yourselves as minority leaders of a majority in order to suppress opposition and subordinate individual interests is fascism? Well then, fuck. What is your definition?
Edit: To be clear, OP, a child, disagrees with their dads view that -
revolution is needed to achieve socialism, that killing people wouldnât make us better than the owning class and that violence is bad.
The top commenter agreed that this is a reasonable position for a leftist with different ideas. You suggested that this is not a reasonable position. Itâs fair to conclude then that you are pro-violence. As a pro-violence adherent of a globally unpopular economic and political movement you and OP proposing to install your movement âas minority leaders of a majority in order to suppress opposition and subordinate individual interestsâ meets the literal textbook definition of fascism that I linked you to.
Play whatever weasel word games you like, but the political spectrum is a teardrop and your call for violence puts you right back at fascism. If you donât like this, maybe be a little less fasc-y?
