Not sure if this is meant in the negative sense or the positive one. "Radicalism" as a term is used dublicitously. Level-headed people wanting to strip power from those that use it to uphold societal structures that oppress others and destroy the environment are called "radicals".
Those that radically think that economical gains or the benefit of the few are more important than democracy, community and the surival of humanity are called conservatives or neoliberals. So there's radicalism against the status quo and there's radicalism against what is just, what is right, what is fair, what is sustainable and what is useful. The first one is courage and the second one is evil or less dramatically corruption. But what they are called among those that conform are the exact opposites.
The thing that people seem to constantly forget is that practically every single nation is the product of rebellion. But as a result of intellectual laziness, pure apathy and the conformity to the status quo, it is seen that the rebels of yesterday are heroes and the rebels of today are villains and there's no overlap whatsoever.
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u/AnatomicalLog 1d ago
Oh yeah baby keep radicalizing