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D3V1LS_L3TTUC3 t1_j292pqq wrote

Reply to comment by grumblingduke in ELI5: What do the words "left" and "right" in world politics? by UltimateGamingTechie

Notice how the most extreme example of “far left” is people killing a relatively small number of wealth hoarders with the intention of redistributing wealth to society, meanwhile “far right” is the literal genocide of hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of innocent people

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grumblingduke t1_j293uow wrote

Worth noting that the far-left Russian Government ended up spiralling into an authoritarian nightmare that killed a lot more people. Part of the problem with far-left politics is that if you don't have the support of the population you need to introduce all new power structures to force your lack of power structures on the people. And then you open the doors to all sorts of corruption and evil.

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D3V1LS_L3TTUC3 t1_j2aaofk wrote

So your critique against leftism is the same critique that could be applied to literally any sort of political ideology.. “if you don’t have the support of the population you have to force things and that ends with corruption”

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biggsteve81 t1_j297lr1 wrote

The Khmer Rouge would be considered far left, and resulted in the Cambodian genocide.

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