Political compass
meme term for people who identify with the bottom left
corner of the political compass (the "ibertarian-left”), who often proudly tell everyone within earshot that Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Gertrude Stein and Karl Marx are in “their” team, but often ignoring the fact that Mahatma Gandhi was an anti-Semitic proto-Hindutva fundamentalist with weird ideas about women who got killed by another proto-Hindutva fundamentalist for not being fundamentalist enough, Nelson Mandela barely lasted a Presidential term because he was too left for his (arguably, kleptocratic neoliberal) compatriots after being in
jail for over 30 years, Gertrude Stein was a cryto-
TERF, and no
one'
s been able to effectively implement Karl Marx's ideas for the 140+ years since he died.
In
short, political non-entities whose only argument for their “ideology” is that they
don't have, by sheer coincidence, genocidal maniacs on their
corner of the political compass, mostly because the
bar is so low that it excludes coercive state action from their list of acceptable policies.
They have Kropotkin though. Kropotkin's cool.
But still not enough to base an entire political identity on.
Telling me to support your policy proposal “because I'm a libleft uwu” is a terrible idea, Stuart, saying that is the oatmeal of political statements, it just means that you'
re against coercive state action against anyone, not that you'
re against with exploitation or structural discrimination, or that your
brain is grounded in, you know, actual material circumstances.
