No, Socialist Lefties Aren't Right-Wing Either

Having recently received in the mail the issue of  _Root Quarterly_ in which it's republished, I'm re-reading Helen Pluckrose's essay, "No, Liberal Lefties Are Not Right-Wing."

I should note that, while I completely agree with the critique of the identitarian left which is central to this essay, I do so from the standpoint of the socialist left, and not that of a liberal leftie like Pluckrose. And I think she's unfair in accusing us of "not seeing much use for liberals." That's really true only of the more sectarian groups. Lots of socialists have no trouble forming coalitions with liberals around issues we agree on.

Unfortunately, what is true is that many on the socialist left, without subscribing to the identitarians' standpoint epistemology themselves, nonetheless seem unwilling to ally themselves with liberals to defend rationality when doing so could risk the identitarians' ire. This is something that needs to change.

https://areomagazine.com/2018/08/23/no-we-are-not-right-wing-we-are-liberal-lefties-and-we-are-many/