Leftism is oppositional in its fundamental nature, and over the centuries it has accumulated many oppositions.
And, once an opposition has become a part of the loose-leaf binder that comprises Leftist "theory" it is never discarded.
Even when in practice Leftism actively persecutes that which it once had championed.
Thus; some of the main oppositional themes of Leftism, going back to the late 1700s and up into the 1970s include Abolition of Slavery, Pacifism, Socialism/ Communism, Anti-marriage, Antiracism, Feminism, Environmentalism.
We can see that in the early phases of each "ism" there was sometimes a genuine net effort to reduce or abolish that to which Leftism was opposed.
So that the campaign for abolition of slavery began in Britain, and actually abolished slavery (formally defined) starting in Britain and its Empire, and then in more and more places of the world.
But here and now, Leftism has presided over the re-introduction of slavery to Britain (officially estimated to be in the tens of thousands of slaves, presumably more); as a consequence of Antiracism and the strategy of mass immigration having become more powerful than Abolition within Leftism.
Yet Leftism has never abandoned theoretical Abolition; even as it actively imports and subsidizes slavers, and protects them from scrutiny and prosecution.
Or, when Leftism was dominated by Socialism/ Communism, it valorized native working-class men; and probably did something to improve the conditions of this group - or, at least, the mass-unionized sector of this group.
Nowadays, with the waxing of Antiracism and mass immigration, this group has become perhaps the most demonized in society.
Yet Leftism still takes a pro-working class stance and advocates Socialist/ Communist policies... in a purely theoretical and rhetorical way.
A similar plotline could be detected for feminism, environmentalism, and the other oppositional policies.
Leftism always accumulates in its portfolio, and does not discard.
Ultimately, everybody has found a place within the always-expanding Big Tent of Leftism, because everybody is opposed to something or another.
And if individuals or groups can be induced to make that opposition (or a handful of such) central to their motivation, they are brought within Leftism.
Until now Leftism embraces the entirety of official politics (including all conservative, reactionary, republican groupings).
Including that Leftism contains the would-be anti-Leftist movements (fascism, national-socialism, libertarianism etc); all of which are actually, by their fundamentally oppositional nature, thereby forms-of-Leftism.
Therefore; Leftism, through time, develops a "rainbow" of incompatible and mutually hostile "concerns" without ever resolving the contradictions - but instead promoting all of them, all of the time.
Thus Leftism depends absolutely upon permanent dishonesty, total-hypocrisy, and a continual "Orwellian" rhetoric inversion - by which destruction is called creation.
And all this was made possible, and eventually inevitable, because in a world that denies and excludes the reality of God the creator; then there can be no positive Good. Instead morality itself becomes oppositional; and morality is discussed and measured in utilitarian and psychological terms of gratification versus suffering.
By ignoring divine purpose and meaning; all discourse and policy will trend to become oppositional to divine creation; all discourse in such a world will therefore be Leftist; and every body (including self-described anti-Leftists) will be a species of Leftist.
So - Here We Are!
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