Posted on 03/07/2018 6:54:05 AM PST by PROCON
In the United States, weve arrived at a pair of mutually exclusive convictions: that liberal, capitalist democracies are guaranteed by their nature to succeed and that in our Trumpist moment they seem to be failing in deeply unsettling ways. For liberals and by this I mean inheritors of the long liberal tradition, not specifically those who might also be called progressives efforts to square these two notions have typically combined expressions of high anxiety with reassurances that, if we only have the right attitude, everything will set itself aright.
Hanging on and hoping for the best is certainly one approach to rescuing the best of liberalism from its discontents, but my answer is admittedly more ambitious: Its time to give socialism a try.
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WTF does this even mean?
Not to be confused for a totalitarian nostalgist, I would support a kind of socialism that would be democratic and aimed primarily at decommodifying labor, reducing the vast inequality brought about by capitalism, and breaking capitals stranglehold over politics and culture.
Venezuela.
At least we have more zoos.
For now, anyway.
Move to a country that has it. Tomorrow isn’t fast enough.
Sure, why not? Over 100 years of failure means nothing.
“It’s time: To give our Guns to Hitler”
Owen Benjamin
https://youtu.be/Mz0hRo-dkcI
(3:41)
The classic — “They didn’t do it right last time. We have better people now, so it will certainly succeed if we give it another chance.”
We’ve been down this road about a million times.
And the only way to accomplish that is at the point of a Government gun.
Stupid *itch.
Jeez. There are planes leaving every day to countries where she can give it a try.
Try?
We’ve been ‘trying’ it for a hundred years!
It has FAILED EVERY TIME IT’S TRIED!....................
Because it’s worked so well in other countries ... right?
A little socialism = a little pregnant
Binary
stuck on stupid, by the numbers!
KYPD
She’s basically saying:
Everyone should get paid the same, everyone should think the same.
IOW, East Germany.
Appears Ms. Elizabeth Bruenig is the Washington Post’s millennial opinion writer. I’m not impressed so far.
Hey Liz!
Move to Venezuela!
And, very recently, to boot.
It’s been tried for 50+ years and here we are.
We’ve already leaned in that direction far enough to cause a lot of economic trouble.
No thanks. Time to move back toward capitalism.
I quit on the first paragraph.
Sure! Look at how well it has worked for Venezuela.
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