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Why are people critical of democratic socialism? (lemmy.ml)
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I am trying to understand as much as possible about socialism as well as other leftist ideologies, and looking around i’ve seen many being critical about democratic socialism, but i honestly struggle to understand why that is such a bad idea as some say. I get that it’s incompatible with ML, but it doesn’t sound so unrealistic and unreasonable to me, so… can you explain? Excuse the ignorance, but as i said socialism is a new topic for me, i mean no offense to anybody

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[–] 11 points 2 days ago* (1 child)

In short, it's like trying to solve the problem of an overflowing septic tank by hooking up your house to a second, identical tank: you have not actually solved the central problem, only delayed and worsened it's consequences.

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  • [–] 2 points 18 hours ago*

    THIS.

    Reform after reform after reform doesnt shatter the the system that causes the septic tank to get more and more filled up it with dirty water simply redirects the dirty water to other places. THATS why neoliberalism started to take off after the 1960s cause the decrease in living standards experienced by global northerners inn the 70s meant that resoucrs and labour needed to be milked out of another population: The Goobal Southerners. The majortiy of labour hours worked today are worked by Global Southerners and every simgle Global South country trades more of its resources and labour time than they are given by global north countries except fot North Korea.

    You have to just destroy whatever the dirty water is coming inside from once and for all: the billionaires and their bribed piggies and the systems of economics and human interactiom that put tjem into power in the first place.

    You have to eliminate the problem of capitalism once and for all, you cant let any little leaks to be left. Get rid of whatever floods in the dirty wster once and for all .No half-measures. We all saw how these half measures fucked over the USSR , Cuba(the Cuban Revolution is dead STFU stop lyong to yourselves), and eventually CHina and North Korea , right?. So ...no more half measures. No more reforms. Eliminate all soirces of the dirty water. No remorse.

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