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[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

If you can be a "leftist" without being at least some branch of marxism, than the term has lost all its meaning. I mean you don't have to like the guy (he has many flaws) to realize the importance his work had on kickstarting the anticapitalist movement that started the left.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I self identify as a leftist but I don't think I'm ready to call myself a marxist. Maybe one day that will change, maybe not. Regardless of what definitions you may be about to link for me, what I think usually separates me from those I view as liberals is that they tend not to see corporate greed as a problem, or not as a pervasive problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The problem with corporation isn't the "greed," becuase that aspect is unsolvable. It's that their current structure exists to exploit everything possible to benefit a very small number of people and they all act in cohort without coordination. A virtuous corporation cannot exist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It’s that their current structure exists to exploit everything possible to benefit a very small number of people

I'm going to keep calling this greed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Call it Capitalism. It's a systemic issue, not a lack of individual morals.