Uncensored2008
Libertarian Radical
Again repeating silly claims that some idiot told you. Is there ever a time when you think " I should find out who the left actually is instead of just believing all this dehumanizing crap"? That's the first thing Hitler did...........dehumanized the Jews so it was easier to crush them............nobody cared if they died once they were believed to be pure evil.
One can spot a rational leftist, they are the ones riding unicorns.
I expect nothing approaching reason from you, but I'll play along anyway.
Leftism is a philosophy, it is an idea with distinct attributes. Defining what those attributes are does not dehumanize anyone. Saying that the offspring of two humans is not human is dehumanizing, saying that leftists oppose civil liberty is merely a statement of fact.
What are the tenets of leftism?
The primary one is that all things belong to the collective. This is the fundamental distinction between left and right, the concept of ownership, of property rights.
In it's most pure form, leftism holds that there is no owner of anything, that all which exists is equally shared. This is Communism, and a pipe dream that has never existed, nor ever will exist.
The transitional stage is Socialism. Under absolute socialism, all goods and services are the property of the state, the people are also property of the state. This is know as "means of production." The definition of socialism is ownership or control of the means of production by the state. Clearly, the concept of civil rights is absurd under socialism, people are property of the state to be used as the owner see fit.
Pure socialism is rare and brutal, North Korea, Burma, The Khmer Rouge, Mao's China. Genocide is the constant companion of Socialism, the Siamese twin.
Most leftism is the struggle to move to a socialist system, to reduce the rights of individuals in favor of increased control by the state, generally using euphemisms such as "the people" or "society" to disguise the call for state infringement of rights.
I'll stop here to see if you can respond rationally.