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grumblingduke t1_j293uow wrote

Reply to comment by D3V1LS_L3TTUC3 in ELI5: What do the words "left" and "right" in world politics? by UltimateGamingTechie

Worth noting that the far-left Russian Government ended up spiralling into an authoritarian nightmare that killed a lot more people. Part of the problem with far-left politics is that if you don't have the support of the population you need to introduce all new power structures to force your lack of power structures on the people. And then you open the doors to all sorts of corruption and evil.

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D3V1LS_L3TTUC3 t1_j2aaofk wrote

So your critique against leftism is the same critique that could be applied to literally any sort of political ideology.. “if you don’t have the support of the population you have to force things and that ends with corruption”

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