Anarchism

The problem pretty consistently is they have simple solutions to complex problems and refuse to use nuance in anything.

They've reduced the problem space to one they can comprehend, have come to a conclusion about it, and now refuse to ever bend or change opinion.

If your regime is vocally on their side they'll defend it unironically and ardently. If your regime has ever shown any pushback you're a Western pig with shitballs.

It's a very comforting worldview honestly. Having come from a radical religious upbringing I know how nice it is to just take a razor and slice the world in 2. Good guys on one side, bad guys on the other and never the twain shall meet. Bad people are eternally bad and the only way for them to not be bad is for them to look, talk and act like us because we're good.

The problem of course is that it is exceptionally rare that you find someone who believes what they're doing is wrong and continually fights for it because they enjoy being wrong. Everyone lands on continuous spectrums of belief and action and they're usually doing what they think is right/good.

To be clear: I'm not saying I understand the entire problem space. I've read Marx and Gramsci. I'm not uninformed: I just know that the complexity of human systems are nigh on incomprehensible when attempting to solve them in their entirety. I don't think the problem of government and economic organization is solvable so much as it is something we can do better than we currently do. It will never be perfect, but we can aim for good enough.

For what it's worth I'm definitely in the big government camp rather than the anarchism camp: and yes I'm aware which community this is. Just calling out my own biases here.

Online "Marxists" licking the boots of fascist and somehow acting like that it will help the working class smh

It so often feels like its more important to them to win every online argument than actual liberation.

It is just campism. It doesn't matter what these countries actually do, as long as they are against "the west".

They’re the sovcits of politics.

A large part of it is that they are simply not as well read on political science as they believe. They have an ideological pen which exists at the intersection of Marxist.org and their favorite Lenin pamphlet and that's the entire political world to them. That's also why they seem obsessed with cold war dogma - because a lot of that era's leftist thought was constructed through that lens.

Honestly I take the other view here though. Social Democrat liberalism shares a lot of values with libertarian socialist ideals, and the whole attachment of capitalism to liberalism is misunderstood. Harm reduction isn't a naughty word, because every leftist idea is harm reduction until we have post-scarcity materialism.