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Left/Right, an outdated distinction? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by poVoq@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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This is not to say that I think they are equally bad or that there should be a "united front" or some non-sense like that!

It just seems like the traditional left / right distinction, even when extended by the authoritarian / libertarian axis doesn't seem to reflect political opinions a very well anymore (and maybe never did).

As a shower-thought I recently considered "rooted" Vs. "mobile" as less ideologically loaded and more descriptive terms of the actually different mind-sets people seem to have. This seems to fit to many aspects of the ideological divide found in today's world.

Any other suggestions?

P.S.: of course just inventing new terms & definitions doesn't change anything (and NewSpeak is certainly a danger), but keep using outdated and overloaded terms is also not the solution.

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[–] plu@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

... Are you aware that in 2021 you still need... factories... and land... to produce things? You know,... the means to do that that only a select few can own?

How do you even come to the conclusion that the means of production of all things are no longer existant? Since when have we stopped relying on workshops, factories and agriculture?

[–] DPUGT2@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

to produce things?

Clinton switched us over to the "service economy" before you were born. You're typing your reply on a machine in which you can learn to create ephemeral programming that even for the minimally competent would earn you $100,000/year, but in some rare cases could see you become a multimillionaire.

So no, I don't think you need land. Or factories.

Or maybe you guys just have a fetish to be working in some machine shop stamping out sheet metal parts for your East German Trebants. I can't tell. But it's clear that you don't live in the real world like everyone else.

Hell, if that's your idea of "the means of production" then even Jeff Bezos is as poor as me. He certainly doesn't own any of the factories in China, nor any of the land they're buiit on.

[–] plu@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

My God you're a loon.