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Exactly!
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RT @ggreenwald
If you find yourself constantly saying this - "oh my god I used to love this great leftist but then he overnight turned into a far right fascist" - maybe it's worth reflecting on whether you are stuck in archaic left/right frameworks with no relevance to neoliberal global power:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1617563285632716801
@zumbrunn Sorry. I need to ask. How do you mean this "exactly!"?
@antiaall3s Well, I agree with how Glenn Greenwald meant it, but I see it true even further and deeper. The past few years in particular, we’ve seen repeatedly people on the left that voiced anti-authoritarian positions being accused by other people on the left as “going far right” hardly stopping short of throwing the fascist label at it. Obviously, the opposite is true, it is never those that take anti-authoritarian positions that can be accused of going fascist. Impossible. 1/3
@antiaall3s 2/3 As regards a left/right framework that I would consider not archaic, it would be reasonable to look at it such as the left wanting the state in the role of a nanny taking care of society while the right wants a state that provides patriarchal security. So, it’s those with a mommy complex vs those with a daddy complex. And in the center of these mainstream political spectrums, you have those that have both a mommy complex and a daddy complex.
@antiaall3s 3/3 And they tend to go along and embrace any kind of authoritarianism whenever it plays into either of these two psychological traps.
Anarchism is at the opposite pole of all that. It rejects any kind of authoritarianism. It is the emancipated counter position.
@zumbrunn Thank you for the explanation. Have you ever done the maybe a bit silly test political compass? As i said, it's maybe silly, as such tests are generally speaking. Yet in broad strokes i agree.
The main problem is not an archaic view of left-right, but a missing axis. Left-right still adequately describes economic positions. Where the right wants deregulation, the invisible hand of the market, trickle down, the left puts people, workers first, the social component, re-distribution.
@zumbrunn If you then add a second axis from authoritarian to libertarian (or anti-authoritarian), this describes the method with which the goals are attained. The authoritarian left, tankies, by state control, the libertarian left by creating horizontal structures, consensus process and pre-figurative praxis etc.
With this additional axis left-right is re-framed, it is no longer the only thing that matters. But you also can explain substantial differences between anarchocaps and anarchists.
@zumbrunn There can also be alliances on either axis. Like i as a libertarian leftists or anarchist can find some common ground in social questions with the authoritarian left, just as i can find commonalities with the libertarian right. But if i forget the differences and don't pick fights about those, things get muddled.
@antiaall3s I have not. If you point me to one I’ll do it.
@zumbrunn https://www.politicalcompass.org/test You can even print the result compared to historical figures ;)
@zumbrunn Pretty much the same as me. -8.63/-8.56. So maybe it does kinda work.