Check out my friend ' s Duel Commander Rafiq primer . It ' s a little out of date and for a very different format , but I ' ve always thought of that as a good standard for primers . <| sep |> We ' re open 247 Swipe a card to enter after hours . These two statements are mutually exclusive . <| sep |> Left wing refers to EVERYTHING left of centerExactly . And everything left of center is anticapitalist . If it isn ' t anticapitalist , it ' s not left of center , it ' s centrist at best . utopists get sidelinedNot all utopists . The capitalist utopists who want to believe that capitalism isn ' t ruining the planet and who remain in desperate denial about global warming are not being sidelined . It ' s just the rational communists who want to save the planet who get sidelined . a truly communistsocialist countryThat ' s not how it works . There can be no subtraction from global capitalism . The entire system needs to fall . By the same token though , I ' d love to see you living in a capitalist country that is being embargoed from a global communist system for a year . You ' d change your tune circa five minutes in . rational leftismSocial democracy is not leftism , it ' s centrism . All actual leftism is rational . Nothing that isn ' t anticapitalist is rational , because capitalism is ruining the planet .