this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2024
60 points (76.8% liked)
Lemmy
12472 readers
2 users here now
Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.
For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It goes deeper: sometimes being Leninist is not enough.
I used to be part of a socialist party, split into many "tendencies" (sub-parties? Dunno how to translate it). The way that we often referred to the largest tendency? "The right-wing of the party".
Only the purest are good enough for the People's Front of Judea.
In a few cases it is a matter of purity = orthodoxy, indeed. In some it's simply stupidity: failure to realise that those things rely on a point of reference. And in some it was simply "it's understood in the context anyway, so... meh".
Still kind of amusing for outsiders.