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Words like “self-confidence,” “self-reliance,” “initiative,” “enterprise,” “optimism,” etc., play little role in the liberal and leftist vocabulary. The leftist is anti-individualistic, pro-collectivist. He wants society to solve everyone’s problems for them, satisfy everyone’s needs for them, take care of them. He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs. The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.

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「自信」、「自立」、「進取」、「事業」、「樂觀」這類的字在自由派和左派的字彙裡沒什麼作用。左派反對個人主義，支持集體主義。他想要社會解決每個人的問題，滿足每個人的需求並照顧他們。他不是那種在內在相信自己有能力解決自己的問題或滿足自己的需求的人。左派反對競爭這個概念，因為在內心深處他覺得自己是個失敗者。