• Blinsane@reddthat.com
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    21 days ago

    I wish people would stop using the word “leftist” as it means nothing and comes from dumb-fuck Americans who never studied politics in school. Now it’s used by far right parties in europe to describe anything not Nazi enough for them.

    • harc@szmer.info
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      21 days ago

      As far as I agree generally its a term also used in Poland. It regained popularity due to the far right using it to stigmatize anything loosely associated with left wing values, but it was actually coined… by the communist regime apparatchiks to mark out dissenters. There’s a pretty interesting Polish book on the term itself. BTW Polish radio is a state owned media.