• Graylitic@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Social issues aren’t really a left or right thing, more progressive vs conservative.

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      1 year ago

      I’d agree, except the progressives and conservatives align with the left and right respectively in 99% of cases. Some even go as far as to consider their social values inseparable from the economic ones. When’s the last time you met a conservative socialist, for instance?

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        1 year ago

        Those are generally because reasons for being a Socialist are largely revolutionary and against the status quo, in favor of more equality and logic, while conservativism and Capitalism are built on retaining existing hierarchies.

        Joseph Stalin was a conservative Socialist, he banned gay marriage which was previously legal.