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 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion   Topic: Left Wing or Right Wing

Tristan E
 Post subject: Re: Left Wing or Right Wing
Posted: 13 Aug 2015, 3:06 pm 

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Most aspies I've met outside of WP are also on the Left, have a weird collage/mix of Libertarian-leaning views that doesn't quite fit neatly under anything, or are just apolitical. I think it's partially our vulnerability that we typically latch on to leftist politics, and that's fine, but I also t...

 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion   Topic: Left Wing or Right Wing

Tristan E
 Post subject: Re: Left Wing or Right Wing
Posted: 09 Aug 2015, 6:46 pm 

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Views: 7,594
glebel wrote:
WHAT!! ! ! ! ! ! 8O


Is something wrong

 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion   Topic: Left Wing or Right Wing

Tristan E
 Post subject: Re: Left Wing or Right Wing
Posted: 08 Aug 2015, 11:22 am 

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Humanaut wrote:
Left wing or right wing is a false dichotomy. Rise above it.


I think it's a very useful dichotomy for delineating people who want to preserve or strengthen existing relations of economic and political power (right) from those who want to extend said power to more people (left).

 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion   Topic: Marxisms and Neo-Marxisms

Tristan E
Posted: 28 Jul 2015, 4:50 pm 

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Back, wizard! Your words of power hold no sway over me!

 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion   Topic: Left Wing or Right Wing

Tristan E
 Post subject: Re: Left Wing or Right Wing
Posted: 27 Jul 2015, 1:53 pm 

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0_equals_true wrote:
After 1988 presumably? Otherwise he would most like either have been a Liberal or SDP.


Yeah it was during Paddy Ashdown's leadership, my grandparents helped his election campaign.

 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion   Topic: Marxisms and Neo-Marxisms

Tristan E
Posted: 25 Jul 2015, 3:36 am 

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I enjoy Wallerstein's work a lot. I tend to read a few chapters at random in one of his books, they are way too dense to take in all at once. (Or should that be I'm way too dense haha)

 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion   Topic: Left Wing or Right Wing

Tristan E
 Post subject: Re: Left Wing or Right Wing
Posted: 25 Jul 2015, 12:45 am 

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Left. I was in the Socialist Party (England and Wales) while I was at university reading computer science. Marxism appeals to my systems thinking and I was brought up to believe in fairness (grandfather was a Lib Dem councillor). The SP don't have a branch in Cornwall though so now I'm in the Nation...
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