Re: AUT: The term "left-wing"

[Floyce White <anti_property@xxxxxxxxx>]

The terms "left" and "right" are euphemisms for
"liberal" and "conservative" on the pro-capitalist
spectrum (as if there are no other political
directions).  Such terms are harmful to the
anti-capitalist movement.  The dispossessed have no
blocs of property interest that could generate and
define ongoing differences deceptively labeled as
opposites.  To label a "leader" such as Bordiga a
"left," it is necessary to find someone to label as a
"right."  This supports the method of "leaders" and
"followers," where the maximum leader is at the
"center" of politics and everyone else is peripheral.
The "left communist" label indirectly supports the
myth of the liberal-as-communist.  It also supports
the notion that there is an equally-valid,
pro-capitalist trend within communist ideas.  The
label "left communist" reinforces the myth of the
"right communist," and vice versa.

To allow "Leninists" to pigeonhole you as a
"left-wing" leftover is to abandon COMMUNIST theory to
the bourgeoisie.  We must not allow ourselves to be
limited by the mistakes or shortcomings of the past.

Strangely enough, I dropped much of this argument from
my fifth article "Communism Is Action Not A Belief"
because I thought it was not really necessary or relevant.

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