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[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is that really 'far' left, though? Far left is, "let a handful of governors control everything, on behalf of communal ownership, and they will make sure everyone's needs are met fairly."

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I think the use of "far left" in this meme is based on the labels that right wing media is pushing on the 'normal' left.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's not the far left, that's Capitalism. The Far Left is for democratic control of Production and working towards a Stateless, Classless, Moneyless society via Worker Ownership, whether that be through a state or via Anarchism.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't think far left implies statelessness. I know communist governments are not taken as an ideal picture of far left, but I thought far left politics still has state governorship over public ownership?

You say Worker Ownership, but I thought the thing about 'left' versus 'right' is a collective ownership (requiring presumably some manner of management) versus individual ownership (that permits capitalism if people have full freedom to trade).

[–] jlou@mastodon.social 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The left isn't necessarily opposed to ownership or freedom to trade. Nor is capitalism just freedom to trade. Capitalism is a set of exploitative property relations based on a fake contract (the employer-employee contract). In this contract, the legal responsibility for the entire result of production is assigned to the employer despite the workers' joint de facto responsibility for that result. This violates the basic tenet that legal and de facto responsibility match