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[–] fort_burp@feddit.nl 4 points 6 hours ago

Aw man, just when not supporting Capitalism became illegal :/

https://jacobin.com/2025/10/trump-classifies-anti-capitalism-as-a-political-pre-crime

Capitalism has always needed lots of support from the government in order to work (and I think we hurt Capitalism's feelings).

[–] 33550336@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

I love the uplifting news

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago

More like “those who want to see 10% more socialism in their capitalism are feeling cautiously optimistic that the Democratic Party might change slightly.”

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Capitalism is not the opposite of socialism in fact the people in the picture advocate for nordic style socialism which is very much capitalism based just with strong safety nets.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 20 points 22 hours ago

So........ social democracy ?

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Nordic Style socialism is actually called social democracy. Americans are somehow latching onto the term given to them by the right.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Americans don't know the difference between socialism and communism, and both makes them piss their pants in fear.

[–] DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Hopefully they will realize that the best America has ever been outside of racial and social issues is when FDR was president who was basically a social Democrat, although he preferred the term progressive and new nationalist. The decades after his economic reforms were the greatest time in American history, and then the Republicans got power again with Nixon and started to dismantle all of it, by the time Regan was in office, he killed organized labor and cut taxes on corporations leading to the current situation of hyper Inflationary debt based economics.

[–] fort_burp@feddit.nl 2 points 6 hours ago

It's important to remember that the New Deal was a compromise between the Capitalists and the Labor Unions / Communists. There has to be a far left threat to Capital for the status quo to move to the left at all. That has been absent in the USA for decades (like you said, starting around Nixon time) which partially explains how far right the USA has moved with decline in labor's share of profits, increasing wealth inequality and now all the way to fascist violence.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

This is exactly what needs to happen again. A bold progressive president who DGAF and builds some monumental new social programs and revives a strong welfare state, taking back the word "welfare" because it's A GOOD thing to not watch your citizens starve to death in the street, and we once knew this.

[–] fort_burp@feddit.nl 2 points 6 hours ago

It’s important to remember that the New Deal was a compromise between the Capitalists and the Labor Unions / Communists. There has to be a far left threat to Capital for the status quo to move to the left at all. That has been absent in the USA for decades (like you said, starting around Nixon time) which partially explains how far right the USA has moved with decline in labor’s share of profits, increasing wealth inequality and now all the way to fascist violence.

You will never get a president that just enacts sane social policies without a strong left, and that means organizing and Labor Unions.

[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Then Republicans get back into power and revert all the progress...

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

The American left completely fails to use this. They will harp on socialism endlessly instead.

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

The right didn't give us "social democracy". You're very confused.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 5 points 14 hours ago

I think he meant that the right gave us the fear-word "socialism"

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

The right calls everybody who just wants healthcare a socialist. Wanting healthcare is not socialism.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Not Americans, American media which is all completely controlled by oligarchs.

[–] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (18 children)

Capitalism works best with strong rules in place to prevent psychopaths and sociopaths from expanding too large.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

But those rules inevitably fail because under capitalism wealth always consolidates under the psychopaths and sociopaths. Like, there’s no way to have capitalism and not have that happen. It’s part of the fundamental structure of private ownership of capital.

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

You know what stops that from happening?

A politically engaged populace. The vast majority of Americans just don't care.

[–] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Limit the amount of capital that can be individually owned. Wealth cap. Sociopaths are going to sociopath, make it so they can't have more money than a government and there wouldn't be so many problems.

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 minutes ago

The cap needsto be way, way lower. You don't need to to have more money than a government to buy a politician or buy media. And I think that small steps is all it takes for a class of the society to progressively take more and more power as they work to influence people and remove regulation.

[–] FatCrab@slrpnk.net 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Wealth cap paired with a wealth floor and UBI, and we're really cooking.

[–] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Absolutely agree!

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

It should just be a continuing, progressive income tax. No breaks, no loopholes, no tax evasion. The left is focusing on a single, arbitrary number and it's a bad idea.

[–] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

I'd argue it's an idea that's easy enough to convince others to vote for. Anything with "tax" in it, has and will be weaponized. Realistically, a wealth cap may not be the best solution, but its the only one simple enough that propaganda has a hard time twisting. It's an easy sell to those with a 5th grade reading level.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Ok, institute a wealth cap and the people who have hit it will just bide their time until people get complacent, then start exerting power to roll it back. It happens with every reform and regulation that put limits on private ownership of capital. What we really need is to abolish private ownership entirely.

[–] FlyingSpaceCow@lemmy.ca 4 points 21 hours ago

That's not just money, but any form of power (in every system over time). Fighting it seems to be the eternal struggle.

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[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 104 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Until we start seeing some socialists in positions of power, passing socialist policies, I'm going to respectfully disagree.

They're right that capitalism is out; but look around. Socialism isn't in. Fascism is.

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[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Due to history, many East-Europeans (and US apparently) seem to understand socialism as communist dictatorship, because soviet puppets liked to call themselves that.

if you say "democratic socialism" everybody seems to understand it more as the Nordic model.

Political propaganda really likes to use that confusion.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

For me, it’s simply that socialism is a sliding scale.

Did you help out the grandmother that had fallen off her mobility device on the sidewalk? Congratulations, you’re partly SOCIALIST. She didn’t pay for that assistance and yet you gave her value anyway.

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