The Nature of Leftism

"The presupposition of competitiveness" grants competition as a rational process by any belief. This is why Leftism can't criticize the outcomes of economic competition without becoming inconsistent.

"What is Leftism? The dictionary defines it as "The people and groups who advocate liberal, often radical measures to effect change in the established order, especially in politics, usually to achieve the equality, freedom, and well-being of the common citizens of a state."[1] Or per Wikipedia:

"Leftists... claim that human development flourishes when individuals engage in cooperative, mutually respectful relations that can thrive only when excessive differences in status, power, and wealth are eliminated. According to leftists, a society without substantial equality will distort the development of not only deprived persons, but also those whose privileges undermine their motivation and sense of social responsibility. This suppression of human development, together with the resentment and conflict engendered by sharp class distinctions, will ultimately reduce the efficiency of the economy." [2]

If taking these definitions to be sufficient of all derivations of Leftism-progressives, social liberals, social democrats, socialists, communists, anarchists, etc.[3]-then Leftism is necessarily anti-competitive, as competition by definition produces inequality. To be for the elimination of "excessive differences" and to advocate "a society without substantial equality", as defined previously, is still, albeit nonsensically, anti-competitive. The nature of competition is the existence of rival differences which tautologically create inequality amongst them - if these differences weren't defined as unequal by the definition of "different" to begin with. Competition itself is amoral, for does a fact such as the sky being blue have a moral value? Thus, the belief that competition ought to be different than what it is, such as through moralization (e.g. "a society without substantial equality will distort [its] development..."[2]), is to be opposed to what competition is.




Having clarified that Leftism is necessarily anti-competitive, the realization that Leftism is self-contradictory is now clear: An argument, theory, belief, or ideological position, which is anti-competitive invalidates its presupposition for existing, rendering it logically inconsistent through this contradiction. I'll reiterate: An argument, theory, belief, or ideological position, which is anti-competitive invalidates its presupposition for existing, rendering it logically inconsistent through contradiction. In other words, an argument, theory, belief, etc. presupposes a competitive nature for which it is a participant in. This is simply because the nature of discourse supposes that to put forth an idea-and certainly one of a political nature such as Leftism-is to have it rival or contend with preexisting ideas, i.e. thinking does not exist in a vacuum. This is not to say a belief is necessarily put forth with the intent to contend with a preexisting belief; it is to say though, that, if thoroughly scrutinized, every belief can be reduced to its fragments (e.g. axioms) which will necessarily expose opposition (e.g. belief A holds axiom X to be true while belief B holds it to be false) to the fragments of another belief. Otherwise, differences in beliefs would be nonexistent, as beliefs would be all identical, i.e. equal.

Thus the necessary and sufficient supposition for any belief is its competition for preeminence. And it is this supposition of competitiveness which Leftism abides by and, by definition, contradicts."

1. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/left
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%80%93right_politics

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[bblokar1]

I was about to watch this video and destroy your likely pathetic arguments. Sadly i found your stupid fucking faggot face so irritating that i had to pause the video to write this insult. Sorry.

[UCIBME]

@bblokar1 Go back to masturbating about living in a hunter gatherer society so you can escape your failure to achieve any merit by modern normative standards. Loser.

[imaginativelads]

Another spoiled asshole spouting comfortable ideological nonsense. Get some experience in life and then you'll understand that any logical arguments you make against leftism will ultimately fall on deaf ears, and empty bellies. All attempts to bring Ayn Rands theories to fruition will implode in the practical world. Populism will triumph . . . every. . .single. . .TIME. I don't want to be around when your CONVENIENT arm chair lifestyle falls apart. Your discussions are pure mastrobation.

[UCIBME]

@imaginativelads Troll troll go away, come again another day.

[UCIBME]

@tothemax01 haha what are the odds?!

"Leftists has never spoken as though their belief system is a competitive option"

--they don't have to; as I am saying, it's implied when they argue...basically, every time anyone argues something they are saying the argument is the best or better than the alternative.

This provides a quick-and-easy way of dismissing Leftism as necessarily logically contradictory, and I offer it because Leftists ignore facts and truths that contradict their world-view.

[UCIBME]

@Schneboll If you mean they reject reality and substitute it for their own, then yes, absolutely.

[Rickdeckard2020]

Nice strawman. When can we expect the tin man and the lion?

[bblokar1]

@UCIBME

>born in a wealthy middle class family

>born in a wealthy western country

Yeah bro, thats really something that you achieved in your life. What about all those people living in 3rd world that have to work in sweatshops for 12 hours per day or are left to starve to death to keep your life comfortable? Im sure a ruthless despotic absolutist dictator would praise his system too. Go fucking die. This world would be better off without people like you.

[LordWellington15]

Right-wing is best. Most University Student become Left, not knowing how the real world actually works. Once you get out, get a job, by a home and so on you dont want to be taxed every time you get our paycheck.

[TheAzov]

Leftism is not inconsistent with competition - any more than competition is inconsistent when ending in monopoly, as it will without regulation to keep the competition "balanced."

[djdnauk1977]

@UCIBME ok so you are a minarchist? (libertarian?) personally i believe a state-monopoly breeds corruption & taxation is immoral, so the only solution i see working is voluntaryism, which would allow contractual 3rd parties to solve societies problems... not to mention as mans prosperity grows so does the state & its taxes, which means the government that starts the smallest will always end up growing to parasitically feed off its host (productive society)

[UCIBME]

@UCIBME ...because their premises are unfalsifiable. That isn't to say it is a pointless exercise or that I'm a positivist, but rather, by viewing government empirically, one can develop a philosophy, that while it can't be proven, it can be falsified by looking at government in nature.

Thus classical liberalism is the only position that remains standing after an empirical inquiry, but from there one can develop epistemological and even metaphysical justifications for it.