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I think this reflects the fact, as you allude to, that the term 'socialism' has been stretched to mean many different things. I think the answer in cases like t
by peterashford 3y ago
I think this reflects the fact, as you allude to, that the term 'socialism' has been stretched to mean many different things.
I think the answer in cases like this is to not sweat the definitions just ask what people are actually talking about.
This isn't unique to "socialism". Words and their ambiguious definitions are behind a lot arguments that people find themselves embroiled in.
- bart_spoon 3y agoI completely agree with you that socialism has been stretched to mean too many things. But I disagree with the idea that we shouldn’t sweat it. It’s impossible to ask every member of a coalition as large as “socialists” or “the left” what they mean, and if one supports something like social democracy and opposes centrally planned socialism, they may find they advance the goals of the “wrong” kind of socialism inadvertently.