• Cowbee [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    Social safety nets are not Worker Ownership of the Means of Production. You don’t need a wall of text. Bourgeois bastardizations and attempts to redefine Socialism to fit nicely into Capitalism are just that, bastardizations.

    Additionally, there’s no such thing as a Responsible Capitalist. They are not advocating for the same things as Market Socialists, who seek to establish Worker Co-operatives, rather than “ethical” Capitalist institutions (which again, do not exist).

    All in all, I’m just not a fan of people like you taking established, well-defined terms and corrupting them for personal use.

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      9 months ago

      You are correct that social safety nets are distinct from worker owned production. But those are still both socialism.

      All in all I’m not a fan of people like you trying to compress a dense complicated history of a varied and interesting school of political thought into something the width of a tweet just because you want to create your personal True Scotsman and die valiantly the hill of semantics.

      Chances were always good we weren’t going to get along.

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        9 months ago

        They are not still both Socialism, that’s why Social Democracies are Social Democracies and not Socialist Democracies.

        It’s not semantics, I’m just really not a fan of people that are so confidently wrong.

        Yea, I don’t think I’d get along with someone who is adamant about redefining words just to fit a bourgeois narrative, and take away from Proletarian struggles.

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          9 months ago

          Ah yes, of course I am simply a nasty bourgeois sympathizer who is oppressing you in your virtuous struggle. Whee.