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Would it he good for the NDP to adopt a policy of straight up socialism? (lemmy.ca)
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The federal NDP is struggling right now. What if they were to say, “yenno, fuck it, we’re straight up 100% socialist. Our platform is now that there can be no private ownership of the means of production, all workplaces are democratically run, etc.”? Would this help revitalize the party, or would it cause people to distance themselves even more? What is the state of public opinion on this right now, in your assessment?

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

Re: private property, definitely not. In BC right now it's a hot potato for BCNDP leader David Eby because of a couple court cases conflated together, BC Conservatives are scaremongering about Indigenous people taking people's houses abd assuming control over all natural resources, and Premier Eby hasn't had good messaging that has pleased anyone so far.

There are Marxist-Leninist, and Communist political parties that espouse those views unapologetically, they got about 4600 votes each or 0.02% of the vote share in Canada's 2025 elections.

I think where Avi Lewis is situating himself is about reasonable for the mainstream left and progressive left in Canada without being too alienating to moderates and centrists. Publicly owned grocery stores competing with private businesses to lower prices is a few steps removed from nationalization, a state monopoly on grocery or syndicalism, but it is in that general spirit.