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Socialism as a political system is defined by democratic and social control of the means of production by the workers for the good of the community rather than capitalist profit, based fundamentally on the abolition of private property relations.
Socialism is also a sociopolitical movement dedicated to the critique and dismantling of exploitative structures, including economic, gendered, ethnic oppression.
Socialism, as a movement, confronts these different systems of oppression as mutually conditioning, intersectional, and/or dialectically related within the current hegemonic order. It seeks to overcome oppression in a holistic manner without neglecting any particular axis so that it might be eliminated and genuine social emancipation may be realized. We recognize that Socialism cannot be achieved while structural oppression continues and workers are divided.
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#Posting Guidelines
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I don't it's any more "idiotic" than average convos in RL. The problem of twitter with this kind of thing is that unless you are privy to argument #5325920525 that happened in the comments of a tweet that was related to another tweet that was related to another conversation some months ago, you may have no idea what people are getting worked up about in the first place. I say this as someone who used to use twitter and would regularly have moments where I was like, "What exactly are people arguing about and why?"
In context, it probably makes perfect sense why they went for "it's fascism", but if you don't have that context, it can look like somebody randomly calling things fascist. In this case, I'm fairly confident that what's going on is some in the online "left" (idk if it extends to RL at all) view solarpunk favorably as some kind of aspirational future thing (IIRC, maybe because of it's vaguely environmentalist themes?). And so there is pushback against it as having any sort of meaningful basis on which to aspire to. What people aspire to does matter and there may be some in the west especially who are so used to the normal of their country exploiting the global south that it doesn't register as odd to them, the lack of the working class's presence in the aesthetic.