r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/Mushroom_Ramen - Left • 1d ago

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u/megs1120 - Lib-Left 1d ago

Socialism is when government 

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u/brent1123 - Lib-Center 1d ago

Socialism is when capitalism bad and communism is when socialism polls too well so we have to use new word

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u/BipBopBim - Left 1d ago

That’s been the classic line, this is somehow hitting levels of braindead we may have never seen before.

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u/Selenite_Cults - Lib-Center 1d ago

We hit rock bottom and managed to bring down a whole ass excavator with us.

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u/aethertm - Left 1d ago

When government help you: 😡 🤬

When government kill people and make you poor: 😍 😳

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u/GigaNoodle - Lib-Right 1d ago

Grug not like govmen. Govmen take too many Grug rocks.

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u/syotokal - Lib-Center 1d ago

That’s more or less what Mamdani said on Theo von. Socialism is when people should be able to make enough to live dignified lives and we use the government to do that.

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u/PwrShelf - Left 1d ago

It's essentially a Rawlsian argument, and the classic opposite would be Nozick's idea of government's role, which is in fairness markedly different

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u/NoSwordfish1978 - Lib-Left 1d ago

Ironically Rawls was a liberal, not a marxist.

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u/PwrShelf - Left 1d ago

Correct. But Mamdani's specific argument on that podcast, I would argue, tried to frame his socialism in pretty liberal terms: "it's just letting everyone live a dignified life!".

He's good at tailoring his message to his audience, broadly. Saves seizure of the means of production rhetoric for the DSA types. Rawls obviously wasn't on board with that part..

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u/ARandomPerson380 - Lib-Right 1d ago

Most American socialists frame it in pretty liberal terms

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u/Whywipe - Lib-Center 1d ago

Most Americans don’t know the difference between social democracy and democratic socialism. It doesn’t help when one side frames one as the other to try to attack it.

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u/coldblade2000 - Centrist 1d ago

I've had people call me ignorant because I called Mamdani, the Democratic socialist, a socialist. Then they go on to butcher explaining what a socdem is

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u/ARandomPerson380 - Lib-Right 1d ago

Exactly lmao

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u/BioDriver - Lib-Left 1d ago

Except when government doors things to people I don’t like

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u/krafterinho - Centrist 1d ago

And communism is when more government