The Left-Female Equivalence in Five Minutes
The Left-Female Equivalence (LFE):
Leftism is the political expression of natural female interests and behaviours.
Natural female interests and behaviours are the individual expression of leftism.
What Is the LFE?
The LFE is a political theory that makes it possible to assign a political meaning to almost anything: cultural norms, markets, laws, and even everyday objects.
How does the LFE assign a political meaning to almost anything?
By defining an ideal notion of leftism, and then by comparing laws, cultural norms, and everyday objects with that definition. The more something aligns with this notion of leftism, the more leftist it is. The less it aligns with it, the less leftist it is; when it opposes it, it becomes anti-leftist.
Within this framework, anti-leftism and rightism are two distinct notions. For definitions of the LFE’s main concepts, see the Glossary.
What is this leftism?
Intuitively, it corresponds to the continuation of contemporary socio-liberal movements. Leftism in the LFE sense is therefore a kind of limit-leftism: it captures the present and future choices of socio-liberal movements, rather than the abstract principles they claim to uphold.
Why does this notion of leftism matter?
Because the LFE claims that rich, free, and safe societies naturally converge toward this limit-leftism. This is the leftward drift, which the LFE explains through three asymmetries rooted in evolutionary psychology.
Read the foundational essay to know more.
How can this limit-leftism be defined more formally?
This is where the LFE truly enters the picture: leftism is the political expression of female preferences; conversely, female preferences are the individual expression of leftism.
In other words:
leftism = female preferences.
For example, if women prefer cats to dogs, wine to beer, and avocados to red meat, then leftism should express the same preferences at the political level. It should therefore favor cats, wine, and avocados over dogs, beer, and red meat: culturally, through more favorable taxation, less restrictive regulation, or, more simply, by sparing the former more than the latter.
Leftism therefore expresses globally, at the political level, what femininity expresses locally, at the individual level.
Isn’t it circular? Read the FAQ to understand why it is not.
Why does this matter?
Because, if modern societies do in fact converge toward this limit-leftism, the LFE becomes capable of explaining the evolution of socio-liberal democracies. Better still, it makes predictions possible.
It also explains why the homogenization of values and the stagnation that some people deplore today are not independent phenomena, but two natural consequences of leftification.
To understand how to use the LFE more concretely, feel free to read some shorts. For example, the one on energy drinks and lattes.
For a more radical application, read the article on The Monopoly of Pregnancy.