Online Leftist Discourse is Sh*t

I was initially attracted to the debates and discussions being had on the left wing of the internet because I found self-described communists, socialists, anarchists, and everyone in-between to hold the most radically oppositional views to the status quo that was liberal democracy, capitalist, and American exceptionalism/nationalism. They offered alternate hypotheses to the state of the world both politically and socially and didn’t have to water down the intensity of their rhetoric because they weren’t involved with the same preexisting power structures that had dominated what was seen as…