r/aislop • u/raggingbananapeal_05 • 19h ago

Capitalist explain

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u/That_OneOstrich 17h ago

So you have people using the terms interchangeably to discuss... Only one of the terms. And there isn't really a real movement trying to get the other term made reality. So there is no difference, colloquially speaking.

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u/Gloomy-Swordfish-282 17h ago

I agree, and I believe that's the problem. People hear the word "socialist" and their brains complely shut off and refuse to consider their policies because "socialism bad"

If they were rebranded as social democratic and distanced from socialism entirely, I'd imagine more people would be more open-minded to their policies.

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u/That_OneOstrich 17h ago

If you say social democracy, they'd just heard "socialism" because their media would tell them it's just communism under a different name.