Trump wants to charge “bad guy” Soros under RICO.

@basilfawlty89 George Soros is a stereotype. A trope.

He could have gone another way. He didn't.

@yestestvennaya that's adorable.

You do know you get rich people like the Koch brothers, Peter Thiel, and Musk who meddle in foreign affairs to push their way of life on other nations and are also billionaires?

@basilfawlty89 Musk will say that he is aiding existing movements. Large ones. The movement we see in Europe and US is significant. Soros, on the other hand, has to manufacture them. And they are the ruin of a nation.

@yestestvennaya lol citation for your claim of him "inventing" a movement?

Yeah, because Germany and Italy did so well from 1930s to 1940s lol?

@basilfawlty89 But Soros doesn't actually control left-wing movements. It's a lie that Fascists tell because Soros is Jewish.

@BohoBabe Soros funds them. He funds them to change the nation. This is why he is a devil to many. What kind of man are you when you fund small, left-wing groups that want to do away with the will of majority? That want to change the nation?

@yestestvennaya Do you have any evidence of that?

I don't like Soros, partly because he actually doesn't fund left-wing groups.

@yestestvennaya the AfD isn't the will of the majority of Germans. Elon funds them.

@BohoBabe Don't lie. He gives millions to left-wing groups.

@yestestvennaya define left wing.

@yestestvennaya
Source?

@basilfawlty89 What do you think it is?

@yestestvennaya the left isn't some unifiee hive mind.

Don't believe me?
Put a Maoist and an Anarchist in a room and see how quick it takes for an argument to start.

The left on the whole agree that equality, cooperation, compassion and internationalism is important.

I'm an Anarcho-Syndicalist.
This means I believe that neither capitalism nor the state should exist.
Those who do the work should democratically control the enterprises and receive their shares.
The state should be replaced by voluntary communities in a voluntary federation using direct democracy and consensus decision-making.

@basilfawlty89
To your point, I'm neither, plus my first reaction to reading this was Maoists aren't left-wing!

I do think Leftism can be defined, though. It's anti-capitalist Democracy, meaning Socialism or Communism, as opposed to Liberalism which is capitalist Democracy.

@BohoBabe fair, but at the same time we all differ in how and how it would look.

Even in Anarchism, Mutualists and AnComs disagree on how the economic model would be.

And obviously Marxists believw in using the state to achieve socialism.

@basilfawlty89 Yeah, I acknowledge that Communists are left-wing, though I disagree with their vision.

Marxists do believe in using the state, but people who are willing to use Authoritarianism don't understand Marxism. A huge part of his writing was about how material conditions dictate personal political interest. If 1% of society controls the means of production, then the policies passed will always favor that 1/%. If society as a whole controls the means, then the policies will benefit the workers.
When Tankies say we need temporary Authoritarianism, like Mao and Pol Pot claimed they wanted, they're ignoring Marx's whole point on materialism. We can't have temporary Authoritarianism because the moment we give full control to a handful of people, those people will use the state to benefit themselves and nobody else. That's why I'm always for expanding democracy.