Still thinking about the time Matilda said this...
Still thinking about the time Matilda said this...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18056637
source: https://x.com/MaraWilson/status/1288387415833317382
Capitalism sucks.
She is based and so fucking true. We were lied to and we need to do something about it.
she's great. I was a medium player in the Weird Twitter scene and she found it and loved it.
William Gibson followed me because Mara retweeted some dumb weird Twitter "joke" of mine
Coooooooool
She is not based. That tweet was so woke.
Socialism vs capitalism is a false dichotomy. There are other alternatives like economic democracy or mutualism where all companies are democratic worker coops. There are other critics of capitalism besides Marx such as the classical laborists like Proudhon and their modern intellectual descendants like David Ellerman
Economic democracy is just an aspect of a healthy socialist society.
Mutualism is a type of socialism.
The false dichotomy is between Leninism and liberalism.
Mutualism is not socialism as it has been defined in the 20th century @leftism
or mutualism where all companies are democratic worker coops
I think that Karl Marx might have described that as the workers controlling the means of production. In fact I think he had a word for that...
Marx wouldn't have described an economy that uses markets as socialist
Thanks for the info.
Real Capitalism Has Simply Never Been Tried
That's what they keep telling me, but every step closer to free market capitalism we take seems to make things worse.
The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home is right.
Wait, Matilda voices the Faceless Old Woman?? TIL
She does, yes.
I'm very confused and I'm sure it's because I'm very ignorant of modern pop culture, but who is Matilda?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117008/
The protagonist of a book that got adapted into a movie almost 30 years ago
The fact that no one would ask this about Radcliffe/Harry Potter is exactly why this tweet of hers is hilarious
Communism is not socialism
Communism is a form of socialism. If you think socialism is a single ideology, then you've only read the spark notes for either.
Yeah, communism is what anarchists think they will get
The Trumpshbull
Again, it boils down to "define socialism".
Are we talking about USSR, Cuba and China-type socialism? Then they are all those things.
But if we're talking about Finland, Denmark Sweden and Norway-socialism, then I'm on board with socialism!
The problem is that none of the countries you listed were ever socialist. Finland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway are just capitalist countries with good social policies.
And as much as their propagandists wish they did, the USSR, Cuba and China never got past the state capitalism part of establishing socialism.
There has never really been a socialist country in the world, it's a bit of a moot point to go like "I like this kind of socialism but not this kind" when nobody ever got to see it...
That's my point. Socialism developed a broad meaning as time went on. Before, it started to mean simply demanding better worker's rights and conditions. But evolved to mean businesses owned by workers. Eventually, communism came into the scene and started to promote stateless society run by the proletariat. Then with so many people being turned off by the violence of communism, the more moderate left-- social democrats-- advocated to implement socialism through political and electoral mobilisation. But even then, as time progressed, social democrats abandoned their attempts to implement wholesale socialism and instead rein capitalism with sweeping regulations, instead of abolishing capitalism. Nonetheless, even though social democracy still embraced capitalism, the ideology is still considered under the wide tent of socialism but further right to it.
Define the Nordic Model. It’s not socialism what they have. At best it’s a social democracy. They still run on a capitalistic system. Not to mention they are crawling to the right.
Using socialist to mean "has social policies" is weird to me (and some of the Nordics aren't in a great state government-wise right now)
Are the Chinese antisemitic? I don't even think they qualify by Israel's stupid definition of the word, since they support the UN borders.
Socialism has a broad definition than antisemitism. Does it mean worker-run businesses? Businesses run by the government on behalf of workers? Or should society be organised by commune?
Anti-semitism is anti-semitism. Nevermind what Hasbara says and the Israeli state weaponising the term to their convenience, anti-semitism just means being bigoted against Jews.
Are the Chinese antisemitic?
None of those are socialism.
That's literally Venezuela
