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Possibly because what in germanophone society is known as Solidarität with laudative valence, in anglophone society winds up labelled socialism with pejorative

• zdragnar 3y ago
  Corrupt and / or exceedingly inefficient government bureaucracies are going to be a problem, regardless of whether they have a socialist bent or not. Everyone here loves to trot out north European countries as prime examples of the glories of socialism, neglecting to point out what makes them work better than, for example, various South American countries. Small business organizations might be perfectly happy organizing themselves into political action, while rejecting the notion that society as a whole would benefit from being organized by the government itself.
  • 082349872349872 3y ago
    If reciprocal aid only applied to small factions and not to society as a whole, that would suggest solidarity must have a different meaning than it does here. If a government organised its society instead of a society organising its government, that would suggest democracy must have a different meaning than it does here. (and, yes, I'm completely open to the idea that these words do have different connotations in different cultures; part of the trouble is vastly different experiences: it is easy to be skeptical of governments in general if one has never personally experienced a functional one)