Quote (theCrossbones @ 26 Jun 2024 23:56)
This stance proves my original post on this.. you have these clear and concise political perspectives to classify RU as communist. But the American R calls anything they don't like, or anything that is remotely about public services "communism or socialism"
Thanks for taking my all the way to point proven.
However I do agree that RU politically is not actually communist.
Now apply all those filters to American politics and we would agree.
Re: bolded:
I get what you mean, but this doesn't apply to me. First, I'm from Europe anyway.
Second, the distinction between actual socialism and social democracy is a pet peeve of mine, I love to rub it under people's nose when they conflate the two.
Third, this distinction is made a lot harder for undereducated or simply disinterested Americans due to the fact that a lot of social democratic, cookie-cutter left-wing parties in Europe's political spectrum call themselves "socialists" or "socialist party" although that's not what they actually are.
Fourth, it has of course been a deliberate and decades-old strategy by the political right to lump their legitimate left-wing competition together with unsavory commies, similar to how the political left loves to lump right-wingers and nationalists together with racists and nazis.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jun 26 2024 07:28pm