What Is and Isn't Infighting On The Left.

"The left is infighting." "The left is tearing itself down." "The left is imploding." "The left is putting principles and ideology before unity." "The left..." ENOUGH!!! Majority of you don't know what the left is...

First, before one complains about infighting, one needs to recognize where the left starts and understand that there is a difference between the establishment left's starting point and the actual left. And then one needs to understand the difference between the two. This is based off of a compass; if you're going left or right, that means you're also going forward or backward. If the political compass had east and west, then you would have north and south. If the compass mentioned moving horizontally, there would be a vertical, but alas, the compass is left versus right...

The political compass has 2 main axes, the social axis runs forward and backward. Forward is government intervention, control, authoritarian, and statism; backward is individual autonomy, personal liberty, egoism, and libertarian. The economic axis is divided in the center, left of center is communal, public, equitable, and egalitarian, and anti: oppression, exploitation, coercion, extortion, and manipulation; making it anti: capitalist, feudalist, avaritionist, and kratocracy. Right of center is private, social Darwinist, partisan, and snoot, and pro pride, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, sloth, apathy, wrath, and exceptionalism; making it pro: capitalism, feudalism, avaritionism, and kratocracy. Now there are two sub-axes, one running from authoritarian left back to libertarian right, and one running from libertarian left forward to authoritarian right; while I'm not going to get into these sub-axes, understanding they exist explains why those groups from those sub-axes get conflated on occasion.

The establishment left in Western societies runs from right of center to center right. It's everything the right is, but it attempts to create false consciousness or Stockholm Syndrome with safety nets, by trying to provide just enough comforts to keep humanity from rejecting their mistreatment and violations. Once this is understood, one should understand that there is no infighting between the establishment left and what the establishment left calls the radical or far left; they're two different sides of the economic axis. The infighting on the left is between the different sides of the social axis because while both are supposedly communal, there is an irreconcilable difference on what comes first, the community or the individual. That is a major conflict.

I want to be clear, any of the 4 sides of the compass map can have infighting but if one is gonna call out infighting, it's crucial to get the side doing the fighting correct. I also want to be clear, the map or compass is not a globe; if you go far enough in one direction, you do not automatically gain the character traits of the other side. If you go far enough into the dark triad, you will not magically enter the light triad of personalities and ideologies. The compass maps I shared are to give an idea of how the political compass works. Ideology placement and labels listed on the images may not be in the exact location; remember, the images are more for building an understanding. This post while showing images of the US, is not US centric.

I also want to clear two things up. What the system tells us is the radical left, is actually the normal left, what the system tells us is the mainstream or normally the pseudo left. I hope this blog helps. And there is no true center, everyone, no matter how neutral one claims to be, will always fall into one political quadrant, they will always have just a little bit of bias towards something, making them not neutral. For a lot of individuals, that bias is they don't believe in true socialism or true anti-capitalism and think there must be a little capitalism, thinking socialism or anti-capitalism on its own will fail. That is a bias, and the specific bias I showed in ny example, is a right-wing bias, people can lean in all sorts of directions but they always show bias in a certain direction. Figuring out each person's bias might be difficult but there is always a bias.