Health care, for example, can be provided publicly, privately or in a mixed system like Germany’s; but it should always be universal. Pension reform is a no-brainer. So is tax simplification that cuts loopholes for Boomers, thus broadening the base without necessarily raising rates. And yes, we should keep studying the idea, still never properly tried, of a Universal Basic Income — not to expand, but to replace the welfare state.
It would be tragic if we survived the pandemic only to find ourselves living in true socialism, which in practice has always robbed societies of prosperity and individuals of freedom. To avoid that fate, all generations should offer Millennials a fairer — a liberal — deal.
All that hand-wringing just to literally propose rebranded neoliberalism. I can't even understand who would write this, or why, or who would take this shit seriously.
40% of people are about to get evicted - so yeah, contradictions are about to be forced. it's just interesting to watch hegemonic ideology break down in real time. best to keep in mind what the real contradictions are and not get swept up in the tide of breaking hegemonic ideology.
I never thought I’d say this about a Bloomberg article, but the comments are actually pretty good! The number of people who laid into this piece and were super critical of it from the left is really encouraging!
Online you will find over-representations of every single group with a strong opinion. It's just the nature of things.
With a mere 200 dedicated and terminally online socialists you could easily shift the mood in many online comment sections for smaller articles.
And who would be most likely to reply to an article like this or read it in the first place? Probably not those who agree with it, they just nod at it and move on with their day. And socialists are more likely to anger click on it and then respond.
Go to a large default subreddit on reddit for a slightly more accurate representation. See how well selling actual socialism (not Bernie Sanders socialism, not what all these liberals think is socialism) to them in the comments goes. You'll get downvoted massively.
Sentiments against capitalism are growing make no mistake. But the actual movement for socialism is being actively subverted and co-opted by liberal opportunists (Warren, Bernie) as well as the new cold war against China and the platoon of left anti-communists who inveigh against "authoritarian" socialism in places like the former USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia. Everywhere it is actually tried it is castigated as a violent and oppressive system and liberals who like to call themselves socialists are quick to denounce that and state that "real socialism" isn't "authoritarian" as the US state dept says and that "real socialism" is stuff like Norway. Thus muddying the waters and offering a false path of compromise and failure which delights porky and the CIA.
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All that hand-wringing just to literally propose rebranded neoliberalism. I can't even understand who would write this, or why, or who would take this shit seriously.
holy shit. this is the first time I've seen anyone in major media acknowledge a position left of liberal. capitalist realism is finally dying.
The dialects are in motion comrade and they may be close to finally resolving some contradictions established hundreds of years ago.
40% of people are about to get evicted - so yeah, contradictions are about to be forced. it's just interesting to watch hegemonic ideology break down in real time. best to keep in mind what the real contradictions are and not get swept up in the tide of breaking hegemonic ideology.
I never thought I’d say this about a Bloomberg article, but the comments are actually pretty good! The number of people who laid into this piece and were super critical of it from the left is really encouraging!
Very, very weird to see. Is public opinion actually shifting significantly? Usually these comment sections are filled with red-scared libs and chuds.
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Never mistake online for real life.
Online you will find over-representations of every single group with a strong opinion. It's just the nature of things.
With a mere 200 dedicated and terminally online socialists you could easily shift the mood in many online comment sections for smaller articles.
And who would be most likely to reply to an article like this or read it in the first place? Probably not those who agree with it, they just nod at it and move on with their day. And socialists are more likely to anger click on it and then respond.
Go to a large default subreddit on reddit for a slightly more accurate representation. See how well selling actual socialism (not Bernie Sanders socialism, not what all these liberals think is socialism) to them in the comments goes. You'll get downvoted massively.
Sentiments against capitalism are growing make no mistake. But the actual movement for socialism is being actively subverted and co-opted by liberal opportunists (Warren, Bernie) as well as the new cold war against China and the platoon of left anti-communists who inveigh against "authoritarian" socialism in places like the former USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia. Everywhere it is actually tried it is castigated as a violent and oppressive system and liberals who like to call themselves socialists are quick to denounce that and state that "real socialism" isn't "authoritarian" as the US state dept says and that "real socialism" is stuff like Norway. Thus muddying the waters and offering a false path of compromise and failure which delights porky and the CIA.