In Zohran Mamdani’s Win, Socialism Beat the Status Quo
In Zohran Mamdani’s Win, Socialism Beat the Status Quo
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In Zohran Mamdani’s Win, Socialism Beat the Status Quo
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Socialism = anything that helps anyone.
Got it.
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I mean, yeah, that's the problem that a lot of political commentary has right now, but Mamdani is explicitly a member of the DSA.
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socialism
noun
so·cial·ism ˈsō-shə-ˌli-zəm
any of various egalitarian economic and political theories or movements advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
Not anyone. Billionaires will not be helped by this.
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Yep, he is a Democratic Socialist which is actual socialism, unlike Social Democrats who are still capitalists.
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You may be confusing democratic socialism and social democracy. They are similar in their short-term goals, but democratic socialist have fundamental economic reform as their long-term goal, while social democrats just want to curtail the social problems of capitalism.
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