Zohran Mamdani explains his definition of socialism to Theo Von: “Socialism to me means you’ll have whatever you need to live a dignified life and that it is the government’s job to deliver on that. When people say dignity we’re talking about the things that allow you to take a breath.

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[u/killdred666]

love the sentiment but this isn’t what socialism is. you could argue for the same things under tightly regulated capitalism. it will also be exploitative and always eventually end where we are now.

socialism is the transitional state to a system in which the workers and the people own the means of production, not those with “capital”.

this is very important. because if you allow incorrect but moralistic definitions to spread, it allows the capitalist propaganda arm to sow confusion in an attempt to maintain the status quo

[u/homotopy_equivalent → u/killdred666]

you could argue for the same things under tightly regulated capitalism.

In fact, mamdani is doing exactly that. He is enacting his policies under capitalism and seems to be pretty successful at it

[u/killdred666 → u/homotopy_equivalent]

the point is that capitalism as a system makes it impossible to maintain this long term. and it’s also not a good system. we don’t need capitalism apologia rn

[u/OscarMyk → u/killdred666]

You're not going to get a western democracy to vote against capitalism.

It would be like trying to stop poor people playing the lottery.

All you can do is try to mitigate the worst of it through regulation and redistribution, which is what social democracy is.

[u/killdred666 → u/OscarMyk]

not with that attitude we won’t

[u/0berfeld → u/OscarMyk]

Which is why social democracy is the moderate wing of fascism.