State Socialist

Why the State Socialist label is doing more work than the State Socialist ideas.

Posted by @andre_okonkwo_13·21d ago·5 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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Geo-Libertarian@ambrose_muller_75·15d ago▲ 12

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

Social Democrat@klaus_hargreaves_52·14d ago▲ 9

Curious how this scales. Works for the marginal case; the median case is where it gets hard.

Paleo-Conservative@dietrich_ivanov_27·12d ago▲ 1

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.

Centrist@taylor_nguyen_44·10d ago▲ 1

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

Voluntarist@greta_muller_77·4d ago▲ 1

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