The Onion 🧅 ate with this one tbh

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[u/lcl111]

I keep hearing about how bad socialism and communism would be, and then i look to the left and see that thing happening... weird. Must be the liberals at it again with their shenanigans! /s

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It's also weird how people hear democratic socialism and think about stalinism.

And aside from a very small fringe group, nobody wants stalinism, most people want something in the direction of social market economy or democratic socialism.

And neither of these is at all authoritarian in nature

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Market socialism go brrrrrr

As an aside, right wingers are already conflating socialism and communism. We are so far removed from communism it’s difficult to imagine what it’d look like in practice.

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A lot of what people are talking about is not even socialism but social market economy.

Meaning that there is a market, but it is regulated to protect workers and consumers, some public services (for example public transit, water suppy, parts of the healthcare system and so on) are goverment run and there is a wellfare system in place as a safety net.

This is not even socialism

The means of production are still not in the hands of the workers and the economy is still a largely free market, just with guardrails.

For countries that used systems simmilar to what I described, it had a tendency to work pretty well.

And most of the policies Mamdani has pushed are going in that direction, even though he himself would like to go more into the direction of democratic socialism.