Sounds a lot like the USSR, were they not PatSocs?
Sounds a lot like the USSR, were they not PatSocs?
Does anybody else find it interesting that the name Nazi referred to national socialists? Now apply that to this discussion.
Please stop talking about there being “a political compass” for crying out loud!
However, revolution is a form of democracy. Direct action by the People.
Similarly, when I learned the error of my ways and decide to join the American socialist party, I learned that they were just a bunch of trans-fascists using the name and popularity of Socialism. This is a new world folks, nothing is as it appears.
Yes everybody wants a democratic system until that democratic system picks the guy/gal that you don’t like. Then the mail-in ballots come out.
Look, people have been debating the definition of socialism for decades, and you guys are not going to figure out here today on Lemmy World.
In order not to be confounded with economic socialists, who the right accuses of wanting everything for free at the expense of others, I always inform people that I am a Nathan J. Robinson socialist.
But which socialism? The economic socialism that those on the right hate, or the true social Socialism of which so many enjoy the fruits?
When are we going to start PUBLICLY calling out those on the right who accepted COVID stimulus checks from the government? This was a blatantly socialist program, bigger than the “Obamaphones” even (before you go off on me for citing Obamaphones, keep in mind that I believe a smartphone with service is a human right.) we’ve got all these people walking around from the right to talk about how much they hate socialism but that 3,200 seemed to come in pretty handy for most of them.
You should read more and type less.