• elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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    3 days ago

    In Europe, most "worker’s " parties have become center with a tiny dash of left for “color”. The sad thing is that real left parties are musty old “real” socialism parties, either populist or tankies.

    What we need is a “fourth way” of politics, a system that makes billionaires impossible, that fosters public services, including housing, cares for the needy, etc, but also promotes entrepreneurship, taxes progressively, guards society against the excesses of capitalism, etc.

    Planned economies defininitely don’t work.

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      Tell that to China, with their 5 year plans. Capitalism is also not the way to move forward - it heavily promotes inequality and strife in the world.

      Caring for the needy isn’t charity, it’s making sure they aren’t needy. Promoting entrepreneurship isn’t companies popping up left and right doing Uber but for dogs kind of idea, it’s solving the world’s biggest problems with new ideas.

      You can’t guard society against the excesses of capitalism because capitalism promotes corruption, artificial scarcity, and waste of resources by design.

      With this being said, to change how the western world acts we must recognize that the party system exists to sustain itself and we won’t have real change if we don’t change it for power to be given to real people and not career politicians (or build guillotines)

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      3 days ago

      What we need is some way to have all our groceries in one bag, but that bag isn’t heavy.

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      What we need is a “fourth way” of politics, a system that makes billionaires impossible, that fosters public services, including housing, cares for the needy, etc, but also promotes entrepreneurship, taxes progressively, guards society against the excesses of capitalism, etc.

      Oh, you mean, social liberalism?

      Social liberalism: Social liberal parties stress civil and human rights and favour a social market economy.

      Or the New Deal democrats of the Great Society reforms?

      The Great Society sought to build on the legacy of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal reforms of the 1930s, and planned to use the power of the federal government in order to address economic inequality, improve education and healthcare, and promote civil rights.

      There’s that word people on here hate again: liberal. You guys are reinventing positions from willfully forgotten history of liberals & the Democratic party.