Opinion of "True Leftists"

[bedstuy]

True leftist political ideology is basically the equivalent of hipster cultural ideology.  IE, "oh, you like Barack Obama, that's so mainstream." "I like Vladimir Lenin's early stuff."  Instead of, "I'm vegan and I wear knit caps all the time," "it's I'm a marxist and I oppose evil imperialists and side with the third world."

Like hipsters, they don't produce anything cultural relevant, they snipe at everything mainstream and constantly recycle old ideas and doctrines.  In both ideologies, the paramount idea is authenticity and ideological purity.  It's about a knee jerk reaction against anything identified with the dominant mainstream consensus, always showing how you know better and you have curated ideas that form a pure identity.  True leftist politics is more about showing how great you are and isolating from society, instead of engaging with politics and trying to make the world better.    It's a combination of being entirely jaded and self-obsessed, expressing your naive, adolescent rebellion through politics.