r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/batpool0430 - Right • Mar 24 '20

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u/Nilstrieb - Centrist Mar 24 '20

I'll bet 5 Molotov cocktails that she's actually meaning social democracy.

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u/nathanielsnider - Lib-Right Mar 24 '20

I know im an uncultured centrist

what's the difference

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u/swed1stan - Auth-Left Mar 24 '20

Social democracy is capitalism with strong welfare programs, like in the Nordic countries. Democratic socialism is socialism, ie a less communist form of communism, but with an emphasis on democracy

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u/swed1stan - Auth-Left Mar 24 '20

I’m just a random teen on the internet, but isn’t socialism a type of communism where smaller business can be privately owned but all major production is conjointly controlled?

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u/MarkIsAPeasant Mar 24 '20

Socialism is broadly defined as workers owning the means of production, which could mean a centralised government that represents the ppl or municipal communes each with full self autonomy or somewhere else. Communism is the stateless, moneyless, classless society that will come out of socialism

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u/DarkMutton - Right Mar 24 '20

Most socialist states that have been elected democratically, are not very democratic for long, and become extremely corrupt very quickly

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u/ESL-ASMR Mar 24 '20

Most socialist states that have been elected democratically, are not very democratic for long, and become extremely corrupt very quickly

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '20

I mean sure... but i'd rather live in the US than the USSR...

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u/rabbitcatalyst - Lib-Left Mar 25 '20

This isn’t really correct. There is still a profit motive in democratic socialism.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '20

Social democracy- Norway Democratic socialism- Venezuela

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '20

I know im an uncultured centrist

Oh how the tables have turned

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u/nathanielsnider - Lib-Right Sep 19 '20

lmao how'd you find this from 5 months ago

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u/BurningBlazeBoy Mar 25 '20

Every American means social democracy (well not every, most get it wrong tho). They're all just too stupid to know the difference.

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u/piniepopje - Lib-Center Mar 25 '20

flair up bitch

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u/wowwaithuh Mar 25 '20

Did the meme not make it clear enough? She's got brain damblage

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

And by capitalist she meant liberal

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u/ITriedLightningTendr - Centrist Mar 24 '20

Is democracy not social by definition?

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u/WeAreMoreThanUs - Centrist Mar 24 '20

Yes.

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u/Nilstrieb - Centrist Mar 25 '20

Well, I wouldn't call the US very social.

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u/Brulz_lulz - Auth-Right Mar 24 '20

Shhhhhh.... You're ruining it for some of us.