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Altruism
Not to be confused with autism.
Altruism means striving for the wellbeing of others, actively performing selfless actions. It is a purely good attitude which we, the LRS, fully embrace. It's no surprise that under capitalism, the rule of evil, altruism is commonly met with hostility or, in the better case, with ridicule.
Rightists often make an extremely funny reasoning error (probably on purpose) to justify their own fascist behavior; they claim that "altruism doesn't exist" because "altruism still seeks to satisfy one's ego and is therefore self interest". Well, firstly this is either wrong, as selflessness isn't defined by obtaining no reward but rather by acting in the interest of others without exploiting them, and secondly even if you define self interest conveniently in a way that makes your claim technically correct, it still completely misses the point! You can behave in a good or evil way, your definitions don't matter. No matter what words you use, you are just trying to excuse fascist behavior in a situation when you can choose to not behave like a fascist -- imagine someone shooting a child and justifying it like "well, I had to do it because I wanted that child's lollipop and I can't behave without self interest because I can't define selflessness".