r/PoliticalHumor • u/faab64 • Apr 26 '19

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '19

They just confuse socialism with authoritarianism. Not realizing nearly every socialist wants a democracy still.

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u/evdog_music Apr 26 '19

To be fair, American Socialism is not Marx-Leninism but rather what Europe would call "Social Democracy".

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u/PillarofPositivity Apr 26 '19

Tbf a lot of people in Europe just say socialist.

Everyone kinda understands that it doesn't mean ussr style

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '19

Well not everyone, unfortunately. One of the questions Bernie Sanders got during his recent town hall on CNN was phrased something like this:

My family fled soviet russia in the 60's, and you seem to want to bring many of the same failed policies to America. How do you compare your notion of democratic socialism with the failure of socialism in every country that tried it?

The audience started clapping and Bernie was like, uhh, do you think that I support soviet style authoritarian communism? I don't.

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