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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Garraty_47" data-source="post: 929393" data-attributes="member: 1547">It's a complicated issue in 'Murica by design.The corporate media and politicians themselves often ascribe or claim affiliation with left/right, progressive/conservative, etc. to simply mean democrat or republican when in any civilized nation both of those parties would be considered right wingers.It's why I try to avoid using such terms unless being ironic or pejorative.I don't give any fucks about the labels placed or self-applied onto politicians. Just tell me how they vote, what they're willing to actually fight for, and who's giving them their bribes. Words are wind; actions are the only things that matter.That's also why I don't subscribe to any particular *isms and wouldn't use one to sum up my collective positions/opinions.Arguing about theory or historical definitions or which *ism is better than some other *ism or whether this/that is praxis is, in my view, a waste of fucking time that could better be spent on grokking current conditions, strategizing to make  improvements, and then doing stuff.Even when my government does things that arguably fit the definition of 'fascism' I prefer using terms like authoritarianism because the former comes with a lot of baggage heaped onto it in relation to past dictators and conflicts.Using dialectic shortcuts by employing words that are almost but not quite what you really mean might feel like an economical use of language but it's really just misinterpretations and misunderstandings, real or feigned, waiting to happen.We cling too desperately to traditional labels and descriptives at the expense of clarity and modern relevance.We exchange ideas the same way we do everything else... shoddily and exclusively for our own benefit.</blockquote>

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