• davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    Sometimes liberals think that socialists are the leftmost liberals, but we’re not liberals at all: we want nothing short of the abolition of private ownership of the means of production.

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        Usually when people say that they mean what Bernie Sanders means when he says socialism, which is liberalism with a social safety net.

        Americans have forgotten what socialism actually means, because socialists & socialist thought were purged during the Red Scare and McCarthyism and the Cold War in general. Most Europeans I think still retain the original meaning of the word.

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        terrifying to me that someone could look at the world around us and think a big change would be a bad thing…