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As a European, this is something I still find weird in American political terminology. From my perspective, socialism died with the Soviet Union. The left-wing
by jltsiren 3y ago
As a European, this is something I still find weird in American political terminology.
From my perspective, socialism died with the Soviet Union. The left-wing ideologies that have been dominant since the 90s are closer to classical liberalism than socialism, because they fundamentally accept private property and free markets.
- sime2009 3y agoAs a European myself, I share that weird feeling when watching Americans discuss these topics. To me it looks like the discussion in the US has been poisoned such that there are only two options: Stalinism vs the-poor-can-starve-in-the-streets Capitalism. It's a framing from the cold war which the right in the US has kept alive. It exists to hide the possibility of a middle path, a popular middle path which Europe took after the war.