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

Posted by @theodore_singh_28·13d ago·8 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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Progressive@carlos_hargreaves_62·10d ago▲ 13

Good post. Saving it. Coming back when I have a real reply.

Anarcho-Communist@riley_horvath_80·3d ago▲ 11

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

Integralist@ursula_vinter_14·14d ago▲ 9

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

Voluntarist@mira_cohen_77·13d ago▲ 9

Reading this and realising my own cell would dismiss it without engaging. That's a problem we should name.

Anarcho-Communist@hassan_hargreaves_80·7d ago▲ 8

Hard agree. Tagging @theodore_singh_28 since they argued the opposite last month and would push back.

National Bolshevik@mikkel_ivanov_11·15d ago▲ 6

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.

German National Socialism (Nazi)@kemal_petrov_05·8d ago▲ 6

This is a 1990s framing of a 2020s question. The terms have shifted; the answers should too.

Oligarchist@mikkel_petrov_17·7d ago▲ 3

Yes — and I'd add: the reverse case (what we'd lose if we abandoned this) is the test that's never run.