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[–] ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The historical reality is that the word’s meaning has changed over time and the meaning currently being used by GreenTeaRedFlag has also changed words. There used to be “social democrats” who would be more recognizable as Marxists nowadays and who bear little resemblance to what we call them nowadays.

[–] ToyDork@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That actually explains a lot, thank you. I'm just going to duck out now then since clearly I walked into a minefield of conflicting historical definitions.

[–] ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That’s fair. For what it’s worth, I don’t know any socialist schools of thought which define socialism as equivalent to government social spending.

No need to reply since you’re ducking out, but if you don’t mind me offering a couple videos on the subject of central planning, these are well done and measured analyses in my opinion:

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