• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    15 hours ago

    left-wing populism, which argues for reigning in the excesses of capitalism

    Left wing means ending Capitalism, not just “reigning it in,” which never works long-term.

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      29 minutes ago

      “Left-wing,” is a very broad term. In the Weimar Republic, yes, the left-wing alternative to right-wing populism was communism. In America today, Democratic Socialists like Bernie Sanders are the left-wing alternative. If that doesn’t fall in line with your definition of, "left-wing,’ that’s fine, but it most people wouldn’t define it as exclusively anti-capitalist ideologies.

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        26 minutes ago

        The Overton Window is relative, sure, but that’s only useful in defined constraints, and only for one point in time. Leftism is socialist, rightism is Capitalist.

        Bernie is a Social Democrat as well.