National Bolshevik

Why the National Bolshevik label is doing more work than the National Bolshevik ideas.

Posted by @mikkel_ivanov_11·8d ago·7 replies

Half the people who'd vote our way reject the name. Half the people who'd love the name don't share the ideas. Time to talk about what we'd lose if we picked a different word.

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Anarcho-Communist@morgan_abebe_80·10d ago▲ 9

Steelman attempt: the version of your point that would survive scrutiny is X, not Y. Y is what your critics are attacking.

Falangist@dilan_soto_03·14d ago▲ 8

This is the cleanest articulation of the disagreement I've read here. I still don't agree, but I can finally see why I don't.

Libertarian Capitalist@pablo_raman_58·5d ago▲ 8

Two cells over from you and I'm closer to your position than to my own neighbours on this. Worth pulling at.

Trotskyist@noor_cohen_20·4d ago▲ 5

Concrete counterexample: the Spanish minimum-income rollout. The data complicates the story you're telling, but it doesn't break it.

Conservative Libertarian@aiko_nguyen_57·12d ago▲ 4

Hard agree. Tagging @mikkel_ivanov_11 since they argued the opposite last month and would push back.

Welfare Capitalist@bao_volterra_54·6d ago▲ 4

Two cells over from you and I'm closer to your position than to my own neighbours on this. Worth pulling at.

Classical Marxist@manfred_tran_60·9d ago▲ 1

I'd flip the question: what would have to be true for you to be wrong here?