jackeroni@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 days agoJust bafflinglemmy.mlimagemessage-square254fedilinkarrow-up1605arrow-down175
arrow-up1530arrow-down1imageJust bafflinglemmy.mljackeroni@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 days agomessage-square254fedilink
minus-squaremerdaverse@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up8·12 hours ago the right to private property Wow that sounds sooo leftist. I think you’re about 150 years late in defining liberalism as “the left”
minus-squareMelvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·11 hours agoCan you show me where private property is categorically right leaning and not left
minus-squaredavel@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 hours agoCapitalism is right-wing; socialism is left-wing. Private property is not about your toothbrush or house, it’s about private ownership of the means of production, which is what capitalism is founded on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their use for the purpose of obtaining profit.
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·10 hours agoBecause that is the status quo. Leftism is about progressing onto the next mode of production, not stagnating or regressing, which is right-wing.
Wow that sounds sooo leftist. I think you’re about 150 years late in defining liberalism as “the left”
Can you show me where private property is categorically right leaning and not left
Capitalism is right-wing; socialism is left-wing. Private property is not about your toothbrush or house, it’s about private ownership of the means of production, which is what capitalism is founded on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism
Because that is the status quo. Leftism is about progressing onto the next mode of production, not stagnating or regressing, which is right-wing.