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It’s time to give socialism a try
WAPO ^ | March 6, 2018 | Elizabeth Bruenig

Posted on 03/07/2018 6:54:05 AM PST by PROCON

In the United States, we’ve arrived at a pair of mutually exclusive convictions: that liberal, capitalist democracies are guaranteed by their nature to succeed and that in our Trumpist moment they seem to be failing in deeply unsettling ways. For liberals — and by this I mean inheritors of the long liberal tradition, not specifically those who might also be called progressives — efforts to square these two notions have typically combined expressions of high anxiety with reassurances that, if we only have the right attitude, everything will set itself aright.

Hanging on and hoping for the best is certainly one approach to rescuing the best of liberalism from its discontents, but my answer is admittedly more ambitious: It’s time to give socialism a try.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Government
KEYWORDS: liberalism; sedition; socialism
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Good grief, a (too) long, disjointed screed with an attempt to sound 'intellectual'.

WTF does this even mean?

Not to be confused for a totalitarian nostalgist, I would support a kind of socialism that would be democratic and aimed primarily at decommodifying labor, reducing the vast inequality brought about by capitalism, and breaking capital’s stranglehold over politics and culture.

1 posted on 03/07/2018 6:54:05 AM PST by PROCON
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To: PROCON

Venezuela.


2 posted on 03/07/2018 6:54:34 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Demographics destroys cultures more completely than thermonuclear war.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

At least we have more zoos.

For now, anyway.


3 posted on 03/07/2018 6:57:07 AM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: PROCON

Move to a country that has it. Tomorrow isn’t fast enough.


4 posted on 03/07/2018 6:57:34 AM PST by lysie
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To: PROCON

Sure, why not? Over 100 years of failure means nothing.


5 posted on 03/07/2018 6:57:36 AM PST by Noumenon (It isn't racist if it's true, is it?)
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To: PROCON

“It’s time: To give our Guns to Hitler”
Owen Benjamin
https://youtu.be/Mz0hRo-dkcI
(3:41)


6 posted on 03/07/2018 6:57:37 AM PST by Voption
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To: PROCON

The classic — “They didn’t do it right last time. We have better people now, so it will certainly succeed if we give it another chance.”

We’ve been down this road about a million times.


7 posted on 03/07/2018 6:58:12 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The government cannot protect you and isn't even trying. Self-defense is a right.)
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...breaking capital’s stranglehold over politics and culture.

And the only way to accomplish that is at the point of a Government gun.

Stupid *itch.

8 posted on 03/07/2018 6:58:55 AM PST by TTFlyer
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Jeez. There are planes leaving every day to countries where she can give it a try.


9 posted on 03/07/2018 6:59:55 AM PST by laxcoach (Government is greedy. Taxpayers who want their own money are not greedy.)
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To: PROCON

Try?
We’ve been ‘trying’ it for a hundred years!

It has FAILED EVERY TIME IT’S TRIED!....................


10 posted on 03/07/2018 7:00:22 AM PST by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: PROCON

Because it’s worked so well in other countries ... right?


11 posted on 03/07/2018 7:00:54 AM PST by al_c (LIBERAL - Laughable Iconsiderate Blaming Entitled Ranting Anti-christian Loudmouth)
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To: PROCON

A little socialism = a little pregnant

Binary

stuck on stupid, by the numbers!

KYPD


12 posted on 03/07/2018 7:01:42 AM PST by petro45acp (It is just that the left,progressive,socialist,antifa,fascist endgame seems so inhuman...unfree)
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To: PROCON

She’s basically saying:

Everyone should get paid the same, everyone should think the same.

IOW, East Germany.


13 posted on 03/07/2018 7:02:36 AM PST by JPJones (More tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: PROCON

Appears Ms. Elizabeth Bruenig is the Washington Post’s millennial opinion writer. I’m not impressed so far.


14 posted on 03/07/2018 7:02:40 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: PROCON

Hey Liz!

Move to Venezuela!


15 posted on 03/07/2018 7:02:43 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: ClearCase_guy
We’ve been down this road about a million times.

And, very recently, to boot.


16 posted on 03/07/2018 7:02:47 AM PST by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: PROCON

It’s been tried for 50+ years and here we are.


17 posted on 03/07/2018 7:02:47 AM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: PROCON

We’ve already leaned in that direction far enough to cause a lot of economic trouble.

No thanks. Time to move back toward capitalism.


18 posted on 03/07/2018 7:03:37 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (DACA is going to be a riot!)
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To: PROCON

I quit on the first paragraph.


19 posted on 03/07/2018 7:03:44 AM PST by pas
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To: PROCON

Sure! Look at how well it has worked for Venezuela.


20 posted on 03/07/2018 7:04:42 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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