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no, but a small sliver of mostly white "leftists" have picked up malthusianism but this largely exists due to their misunderstanding of reality, like yt supremacists they just accept the "not enough room for more people" lie of Imperialism

I personally don't feel the need to procreate. But I don't think it's a left wing issue. Many comrades in our party do want kids or have kids it seems.

My understanding is that there's a trend in fundamental Christianity, here in the US anyway, where people think it's their duty to have as many children as possible. That said, there's also a good chunk of people who come from those upbringings who become very progressive minded, defeating the whole effort.

Childfree here, and I think it might be a side effect of having to do a lot of thinking about society against the current.

Having children is a lot of work that often gets romanticised and oversimplified, so once you look at it really hard it's no longer that obvious of a good decision. Sexist men also have no concept of how hard it is to both give birth to and raise a child, so if you're a man and generally think women deserve rights, I bet you'll be more conscious about that.

Buddy, you seem very concerned with this topic, and maybe you shouldn't be. Politics aren't really genetic.

I have a very lax attitude towards kids, I don't think of it in any larger terms beyond what it is: the responsibility of having a kid.

Also, my wife is pregnant again. Too early to announce, but anti natalists owned once again.

I badly want to have (adopt) children. Baby fever has had me in its claws for years and years. The time isn't right yet in terms of my own emotional development and degree of rootedness. I also haven't found the right person or people to co-parent with. My boyfriend cried the other night because we could have been good parents together, but we're incompatible in some other long-term ways which make that unadvisable.

It's not for lack of wanting. I think there are more leftists with principled hang-ups around having kids that they don't feel able to work through under capitalism, but ultimately ours is an ideology of love that extends to the future and seems to me pro-children.

If it was up to me I'd have a bunch of kids and turn em all into commies

Many parents are leftists because they care about their childrens’ future. I think the impression that rightists have more kids is because rich people can afford to have more kids while poor people can’t. There are also weird religious beliefs that many far right rich people have that make them think they need to have as many (white) kids as possible while prominent “leftist” rich people are often Malthusian.

I am very childfree, can't stand being around children for more than five minutes. Had a vasectomy years and years ago. On the other hand, I am not necessarily anti-natalist, I don't begrudge other people wanting to have children for good reasons. For good reasons is the big caveat there though.

I definitely feel like I see more childfree people in leftist circles, but on the other hand I also see more folks who I think are prepared to be parents for good reasons and that would actually make good parents. As opposed to people who think it is their god-given duty to procreate or just do it "because that's what you do", which seem to be more common right-wing tropes.

Obviously that is generalizing to some degree, but just seems to be what I have noticed anecdotally.

I think its related to religion, not economic views. It just happens that religion is very intertwined with right wing politics.

An example, in my city the "old money" families are part of the opus dei catholic sect which promotes having lots of children. These families also are incentivized economically to do so, they need more kids to inherit their ever growing amount of property and land.

The world is awful, parenting is not easy, but ML gives me strength to overcome all this, protect my children, and in the future teach them sense of justice and ML to fight for a better world. Do not buy antynatalism bullshit, we need more educated and brave people!

Maybe not left wing, but more likely to be socially liberal due to this stance generally goes against the social and cultural messaging, which considers having children to be a normal part of life and necessary to experience, or even mandatory as your duty as a human.

I never wanted to have children or to procreate or anything, in fact I hated being around kids... up until I started my transition.

Now I despair that I'll never give birth and am planning to adopt someday. Turns out, I just never wanted to be a father.

Now, I'm not saying that leftwing childfree folks are all eggs!

But.

Anti-natalism as a result of being treated like shit by their parents seems to be a common occurrence I have noticed.

If materialistic conditions aren’t favourable, I’d imagine so. The left is much more materialistic than the right, which is more idealistic.

The way I see it, we probably won't see communism victorious in our own lifetimes. That being the case, why do we continue to struggle if not for our collective children?