Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress

• psud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You are using a cold war definition of socialism. It’s outdated

  Socialism isn’t the opposite of democracy

  Socialism is what social democracies do.

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  • traveler01@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Socialism is what social democracies do.

    You’re now following in the most common argument fallacy between socialists/communists, called No true Scotsman.

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    • psud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Except it’s you that’s using an outdated definition for socialism, you are the odd one out here, the rest of us all agree on that as a type of socialism

      Note that Wikipedia does not call Venezuela socialist or communist, though the outdated ideas you’re relying on do

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• Sl00k@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Your wiki links sentence says it’s within socialism which would make them socialist.

  Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism

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  • psud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Funnily enough Wikipedia’s entry for Saudi Arabia doesn’t use socialism anywhere in it, and Venezuela only has “socialist” in political party names

    I wonder if to be socialist you need to implement social policies for the benefit of the people rather than for the benefit of the government (by preventing revolt)

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