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Opinion What are 'Radical Left' Beliefs

Which of these political beliefs is a 'radical left' belief

  • Abortion should be largely legal (Up to 15 weeks lets say)

    Votes: 14 15.1%
  • Social Security and Medicare are valuable and necessary safety nets that must be maintained.

    Votes: 4 4.3%
  • The highest tax brackets are too low. Households over $5m and the largest companies should pay more

    Votes: 9 9.7%
  • Gay people should be allowed to marry

    Votes: 7 7.5%
  • There should be term limits for Senators and HOR Reps

    Votes: 2 2.2%
  • We should have a National Health Service (NHS)

    Votes: 7 7.5%
  • Social Media content must be reigned in a lot. It's a big problem & a big part of our polarization.

    Votes: 14 15.1%
  • Instead of deporting, we should make legal immigration fast, easy and cheap. Immigrants add value.

    Votes: 20 21.5%
  • The tax code is far to large and complicated at the expense of the poor and benefit of the rich

    Votes: 5 5.4%
  • The worst food and drink choices should be heavily taxed to defray the medical costs they drive.

    Votes: 19 20.4%
  • None of these are radical left beliefs

    Votes: 56 60.2%
  • All of these are radical left belirfs

    Votes: 1 1.1%

  • Total voters
    93
  • Poll closed .
I'm often called a 'radical leftie'. I'm curious to find out what other people think that means. These are 10 of my strongest political beliefs. Which are radical left?
None of the above. The social media regulation is bipartisan, and really the only thing I’m not fond of on that list. “Cancel culture” was always a conservative thing, but now more recently is also supported my the left.
 
I'm often called a 'radical leftie'. I'm curious to find out what other people think that means. These are 10 of my strongest political beliefs. Which are radical left?

None of that sh*t is "radical leftism." If people want radical leftism they need to talk to Tankies. To the Russia worshippers who believe in authoritarianism and see what they think. The kinds who think religious people should be terminated. Most of us are fine with everyone being whatever religion they want so long as they dont try to force to Country to adhere to their religous principals.
 
i don't find any of these to be particularly "radical" just mainstream normie libtard stuff.
 
Those are all social democratic principles representing the status quo of countries like Germany, Nordic Countries, or Albania. Markets still exist and managed by patterns of supply/demand. There is just a greater emphasis in elevating the floor for the living standards by crowning universal healthcare coverage and progressive taxations systems.

Radical Leftism, I'd generally classify as Maoism, Juche, Castroism or whatever the Soviet Union was. The economy is predominately planned, there is no freedom of speech, democracy, and trail to operate private businesses. It functions like a capitalist country with a "Vanguard Party" or deformed dictatorship instead of oligarchs controling the means of production and generally what is best for everyone. Historically, it has never transitioned into a format where the workers or common man control the means of production. There are exceptions like the SDF or Zapatistas but they have not displayed results on macro-scale.
 
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i don't find any of these to be particularly "radical" just mainstream normie libtard stuff.

I was watching scenes from Thunderheart last night. Kind of a reflection on Val Kilmer and Graham Greene. Now that I'm older the overall message really speaks out. The character of Jimmy would be referred to as a "radical leftist" now:



Jimmy was trying to rat out illegal land procurement for mineral rights.

And just listen to this radical commie bullsh*t Val Kilmer spews here:

 
Social media and instead of deporting are the 2 most out there things you posted and it's not even that radical its just I disagree the most.


But I wouldn't say you are radical off what you posted.

The super radical shit is all the identity politics/dei America is evil racist sexit colonizer/ hatred for their country culture and people

Almost everything to do with trans people

Gun control
I think it's more radical to assume critics of America hate the country than the actual criticism itself.

A strong country doesn't shy away from admitting its errors and improving.
 
The most dangerous radical leftist viewpoint that has become popular in recent years: Hate speech = Violence

Believing this gives someone the moral authority to use violence to combat what they deem "hate speech."
 
The most dangerous radical leftist viewpoint that has become popular in recent years: Hate speech = Violence

Believing this gives someone the moral authority to use violence to combat what they deem "hate speech."
hate speech's intention is inevitable violence. if you are attempting to categorize a race of people or some other minority as inferior scum or vermin, that exists only to justify violence, which will inevitably occur. it's pretty stupid to pretend it's "just words" with no ulterior consequences.
 
I think it's more radical to assume critics of America hate the country than the actual criticism itself.

A strong country doesn't shy away from admitting its errors and improving.

The left gets accused of hating America by people currently cheering every time the President violates the Constitution
 
I think of radical left as socialism, redistribution of wealth, reparations, open borders, race based justice, and censorship
 
Defund/Abolish the police
No limit abortion
Criminal Justice Reform(AKA stop putting criminals in prison)
Legalize all drugs
Sterilizing children
Putting men in women's sports/prisons
Open borders
I dont agree with you on much but this is a pretty good list, I'd add gun confiscation/forced buyback.

(I also support 0 of these things)
 
The super radical shit is all the identity politics/dei America is evil racist sexit colonizer/ hatred for their country culture and people

Almost everything to do with trans people

Gun control
listing something the rest of the developed world has, as a "radical" thing to advocate for, is pretty funny.
 
listing something the rest of the developed world has, as a "radical" thing to advocate for, is pretty funny.
A vague phrase like gun control is too broad to tie it to any political ideology. Id say all rational gun owners would be in favor of measures to keep guns out of the hands of people that obviously shouldn't have them, but there are two major roadblocks that make that simply a means to infringe on the average citizens 2nd amendment rights.

1. Criminals dont care about the law, and there are more guns than people in this country already.

2. Who is specifically deciding what people should/should not have guns, and how badly would this get abused to disarm certain people, or everyone.
 
A vague phrase like gun control is too broad to tie it to any political ideology. Id say all rational gun owners would be in favor of measures to keep guns out of the hands of people that obviously shouldn't have them, but there are two major roadblocks that make that simply a means to infringe on the average citizens 2nd amendment rights.
this is precisely the problem. other countries don't have the second amendment. mexico is the only developed country i can think of with such a thing, maybe switzerland, though their guns and gun owners are far more regulated than right-wingers would have you believe.

that kind of wraps back around to the point. we are the only country that has this, yet arguing against it is apparently the position seen as "radical"
 
how do you feel about the reparations the japanese received post-internment camps and the reparations jews got post-holocaust
Simple answer. I didn't pay those. Asking me to pay for the sins of past generations is wrong. Demanding money for something you didn't endure is wrong in my opinion
 
Transgenders should be allowed to read books in preschools, and play in the sport of the opposite gender
 
It is simple.. Words they don't like is equal to physical violence.

This leads to everything else..Now they can retaliate against this perceived violence with physical violence
 
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