A person who simultaneously advocates for radical
individualism, and radical egalitarianism.
Radical
individualism being the exhuberant (and often jealous) exercising of personal freedoms without a sense of
responsibility to human history, immutable principles, or the society around them. The individual tends more to emphasize personal *rights*, while neglecting personal *responsibilities.* When widely adopted, this leads to social/cultural decay.
Radical egalitarianism is the advocation of equality of *outcome* rather than equality of *opportunity* and, often unconsciously, seeks to persecute those who have achieved more than
others with the hand they've been dealt. Thus the desire for the biggest kid on the block (government) to impose, whether by force of law or bullets, an elastic concept of "fairness" on achieving citizenry.
While, at their core, the two concepts are often at odds, they are emphasized at different times, which circumvents this conflict.
Leftists very often view such figures as Marx, Castro, Chavez and their ilk with sympathy, if not admiration.
"Its very difficult to speak to my dad. He fought in WWII and I'm a leftist, so there's just this huge
philosophical gulf." :\
"Yeah, I know the
Inquisition killed, like, 3000 people over a coupla hundred years, but it just
flabberghasted me how many millions were killed in leftist regimes in just the 20th century!"
