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In reply to the discussion: What would you describe as being the most EXTREME Left wing position? [View all]Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)It was a brief thing on DU in '08, and to the site's credit usually received with laughing incredulity. There were a few people in the forums who felt that anyone who could afford to pay their rent or mortgage was too wealthy and needed to be ruinously taxed (I think "ruinously" was their wording).
There's probably sillier things out there (and definitely were in the past, like places where having glasses was a capital crime because it meant you were obviously an aristocrat), but those feel sufficiently divorced from reality that I don't really see them as part of the left-right spectrum at all. "Being able to afford basic living expenses is too rich" is, and is far enough out on the batshit-crazy, stuck-to-the-earth-with-suction-cups-alone end of the spectrum that it probably counts.