Updates
Dec 22, 2023 (Link updated January 2025)
I created a Slack workspace!
Here's the invite link: EA Left/Progressive Wing Slack (name not final)
Jan 10, 2025
The Slack workspace hasn't gained much traction yet, some members are slowly trickling in. I think a community-building effort is needed, so we can do activities/discussions to keep the workspace a bit livelier.
Notes
It seems like a Facebook group could be created for specific topics in left-wing thought (like economics and forms of government)
I feel like some people would also prefer a Discord server or something that's just not a Slack workspace. I bet it would depend on the preference of the people who would be a part of this group, considering the amount of inactive groups out there, I don't think there is a consensus on where to go.
I didn't downvote you, but I would guess those who did were probably objecting to this
Self-identified leftists, myself included, generally see modern liberalism as a qualitatively different ideology. Imagine someone at Charity Navigator[1] offhandedly describing EA as "basically the same as us". Now imagine that the longtermism discourse had gotten so bad that basically every successful EA organization could expect to experience periodic coup attempts, and "they're basically Charity Navigator" was the canonical way to insult people on the other side. That's what "left = very liberal" looks like from here.
before they started doing impact ratings