• davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      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…