Who's the biggest True Leftist on Atlas?

[opebo]

Thanks to all who included me, I consider it a very kind compliment. 

[LastVoter]

The obvious answer is Bandit

seatown. Openly said he wanted a Republican Presidential victory in 2016 in protest, and often defends positions devoid of all logic in kind of a weird mirroring of libertarianism (examples include his recent post about driving or saying that he doesn't care if he people lose their jobs if they aren't unionized.)

BRTD you are fool. You've been around here long enough to realize that you need to imagine a hypothetical socialist society when reading some of the posts made by me or Tweed or whoever is true leftist. Don't take them as literal policy suggestions since that sh**t is boring(although it's fun when some of our younger/newer posters do).

[Lief 🗽]

The obvious answer is Bandit

Nah, Bandit supports The President.

[LastVoter]

The obvious answer is Bandit

Nah, Bandit supports The President.

Is this the litmus test for true leftism now?

[opebo]

Well obviously, I 'support the president' as well... I also run a small business (though without any employees).

[Lambsbread]

Plus RP's going ever closer to joining the True Leftist brigade.

I am honoured.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Almost 3 minutes of crushing labor.

[Lambsbread]

I like how that applies to more than just you.

[Redalgo]

What are we using as a working definition of "True Leftist," if I may ask? Are we talking about the poster adhering to views closest to those of a red anarchist, the most orthodox adherent here to Marxist-Leninism, the poster with views most compatible with the Old Labor flavor of 20th century, European democratic socialists, the person who is most radical in how their views differ from those well established in Western civilization, the one espousing the most egalitarian values, the poster most thoroughly championing self-determination of the individual free of oppression, or? Until we settle on how we are to measure and compare posters there can be no rational answer.

If I had to guess... maybe Tweed?

[TNF]

What are we using as a working definition of "True Leftist," if I may ask? Are we talking about the poster adhering to views closest to those of a red anarchist, the most orthodox adherent here to Marxist-Leninism, the poster with views most compatible with the Old Labor flavor of 20th century, European democratic socialists, the person who is most radical in how their views differ from those well established in Western civilization, the one espousing the most egalitarian values, the poster most thoroughly championing self-determination of the individual free of oppression, or? Until we settle on how we are to measure and compare posters there can be no rational answer.

If I had to guess... maybe Tweed?

I think I'd fall into this category, but I'm not entirely sure. I do love all the nominations here, though. I feel like Snowstalker would be the obvious choice, however.

[free my dawg]

Bandit.

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[traininthedistance]

What are we using as a working definition of "True Leftist," if I may ask? Are we talking about the poster adhering to views closest to those of a red anarchist, the most orthodox adherent here to Marxist-Leninism, the poster with views most compatible with the Old Labor flavor of 20th century, European democratic socialists, the person who is most radical in how their views differ from those well established in Western civilization, the one espousing the most egalitarian values, the poster most thoroughly championing self-determination of the individual free of oppression, or? Until we settle on how we are to measure and compare posters there can be no rational answer.

If I had to guess... maybe Tweed?

I think of True Leftism as more of an attitude than an ideology- basically making a fetish out of leftism, viewing compromise as an inherently bad thing, thinking that "_____ can never fail, it can only be failed", possibly shading into dehumanization of your political opponents, basically being the mirror image of a Moderate Hero (who would stereotypically do much the same thing with the "center").  This is why Lief is, in fact, 100 percent right when he says:

The obvious answer is Bandit

Nah, Bandit supports The President.

The True Leftist thing to do is to excoriate Obama as a neoliberal sellout- someone with a -5.00 E score who does so is more of a True Leftist than a -10.00 who is willing to be pragmatic and accept the basic humanity of the "other side".  Not that refusing to supporting Obama from the left is the definition of a True Leftist, but that it's a sign of one.

As for who is the biggest True Leftist, I'll only say that it's not opebo or Tweed, both are sufficiently idiosyncratic as to defy categorization, and I don't really think opebo really belongs on the "left" in the first case. 

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

opebo supports Obama.

[Zanas]

We can always resort to the definition of "leftism" that results of Lenin's "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder. See also the Two Methods Discourse between Guesde and Jaurès.

[Lambsbread]

TNF doesn't support Obama wtf

[Leftbehind]

Are you genuinely surprised?

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Yeah, does TNF have to sign off all posts with a ☭ for you to not assume he supports Obama?

[Lambsbread]

Yeah, does TNF have to sign off all posts with a ☭ for you to not assume he supports Obama?

Yes.

[Napoleon]

Keystone Phil

[All Along The Watchtower]

Oakvale or Hashemite.

[traininthedistance]

Oakvale or Hashemite.

lolno

[Lief 🗽]

In fact, Oakvale has heroically stood against True Leftism at every turn.

[Lambsbread]

And Hashpipe's political views are grounded in unrequited hatred of Stephen Harper.