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primitive, bigoted, etc.
I think you're off by a few decades. There's no "hard left" anymore.
*ie him in charge and able to 're-educate' people who disagree.
"We need you to work in the tractor factory and double production every year."
"Ermmm. I don't really want to, though."
"OK. Well...you have to."
"What happens if I don't?"
"Siberia's nice this time of year...oh, hang on, no it's not. It's f**king horrible."
"So you're forcing me to do this?"
"Yes, but it's for the common good and so it's definitely not exploitation, OK?"
I'll have you know I was furthering my attempts to enter the realms of the bourgeoisie, with an agenda to smash and/or subvert the whole business, of course.
C'mon though, nobody could think that lovely, avuncular old JC is hard left though, could they?
We live in a democracy. Democracy is something of a given. Do you mean that the real 'hard left' isn't democratic?
and c) it's a very, very broadly accepted political term for someone who attempts to achieve a fairer society through investment in health, education and welfare via democratic control of a socialist system.
Obviously, yeah, to you they're all stalinist leninparts who will commit us to the urals for labour based reducation but then again to you David Cameron is also a ****o commie, so your opinion is taken with only the tiniest grain of salt.
only truly attain self-consciousness, true freedom, and individuality through the collective, i.e. seeing yourself not as an atomized self-interested rational utilitarian nominalist whose every act and social relation is mediated by exchange value.
Or something like that.