Or, the ‘actual’ left maybe? Unless y’all seeing guillotines on the street
“radical left”, what kind of framing is this
‘Hello, I’m a left wing person. We have lots of social and economic problems and actual crises, and we need radical action to fix them, in the form of left wing politics. My key dispute with the current Labour party is that its policies are insufficient to fix the problems and what I mean by that, specifically, is that they’re neither radical enough nor left wing enough’.
^This bit, I’m on board with. This bit is basically me, give or take an Ed Miliband here and there.
‘… and that’s why I’m going to spend a lot of time getting offended if people on the internet refer to me, the politicians I like or, indeed, the radical, left wing action I’m proposing as “radical left”’.
^This bit I am baffled by.
You don’t see the problem in framing the first part of your comment as “radical”, even though you yourself admit that it’s a pretty mild and rational viewpoint?
No, because there’s no conflict between being rational and radically leftwing. Quite the opposite, I would argue! We have unprecedented crises to deal with, and the correct (rational) response to an unprecedented crisis may well be radical.
I feel like we’re aggressively agreeing with each other, but I still hold issue with labeling a rational viewpoint to mitigate a crisis in an orderly and timely fashion as radical
Fair enough. I look forward to aggressively agreeing with you again in the future.
