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𝗖 𝗔 𝗧<p>Scandinavian Social Democratic countries, like Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland, have much higher standards of living, better quality universal healthcare, and more economic, political, and social freedoms than Marxist-Leninist states have ever had. I'll need a citation for these countries deteriorating. You saying that these countries are still imperialist doesn't negate how much better they are to live in.<br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lemmy.ml/u/Cowbee" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Cowbee</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lemmy.world/u/salty_chief" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>salty_chief</span></a></span><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialdemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialdemocracy</span></a></p>
Akshay<p>Can you build a social-democratic base with both economically and culturally Left policies, or is there a trade-off?</p><p>Some researchers investigated in Europe!</p><p>Must read for centre-left strategists </p><p><a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/964462" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/964</span><span class="invisible">462</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/EUPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EUPol</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Left" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Left</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/SocialDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialDemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sociology</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/PoliticalScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalScience</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economics</span></a></p>
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p>Last evening I finished reading "Lenin, Responding to catastrophe, forging revolution"<br>Paul LeBlanc, 2023</p><p>* new subject area to me<br>* superb book: authoritative, balanced overview of Lenin &amp; his life's work<br>* relevance of socialist movements to today's societal crises</p><p>* my friend (passed) - public servant/activist <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CUPW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CUPW</span></a> - was an authority<br>* I wish we'd chatted more on this</p><p><a href="https://jacobin.com/2024/01/lenin-bolsheviks-russian-revolution-soviets" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jacobin.com/2024/01/lenin-bols</span><span class="invisible">heviks-russian-revolution-soviets</span></a><br><a href="https://www.counterfire.org/article/lenin-responding-to-catastrophe-forging-revolution-book-review" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">counterfire.org/article/lenin-</span><span class="invisible">responding-to-catastrophe-forging-revolution-book-review</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lenin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lenin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialDemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DemocraticSocialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DemocraticSocialism</span></a></p>
halfredgreenapple<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialdemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialdemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/classwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwar</span></a></p>
halfredgreenapple<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialdemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialdemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/classwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>revolution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/guillotine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>guillotine</span></a></p>
The Spectre of Communism 🇵🇸🇾🇪<p>Social Democracy and Imperialism </p><p><a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/socialdemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialdemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a></p>
Yogthos<p>This is what western social democracy looks like in practice.</p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49687-y" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41467-024</span><span class="invisible">-49687-y</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/socialdemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialdemocracy</span></a></p>
Nathaniel Gregory<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> began <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalist</span></a> restoration in earnest in the late 1970's &amp; has backed off of funding &amp; materially supporting national <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/liberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>liberation</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialist</span></a> struggles since that time but go on</p><p>Also even as an advanced capitalist state/red <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialdemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialdemocracy</span></a> it's kicking the futureless, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> ass</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Liberals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Election</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanParty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JoeBiden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JoeBiden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimWalz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimWalz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a></p>
Nathaniel Gregory<p>There are solutions, but <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialDemocracy</span></a> isn't it.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BernieSanders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BernieSanders</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AOC</span></a> &amp; who ever in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FightingOligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FightingOligarchy</span></a> crap aren't the real solution. After 2 elections in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a>, it should be super clear how well working within the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DemocraticParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DemocraticParty</span></a> goes and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sanders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sanders</span></a> given 2 opportunites to break away from the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> instead of defending them as "good friends" should show you distrust to people like this.</p>
Ken M Sweeney<p>If the US could stop fearing communist ghosts and try to understand how different it is from social democracy, then it may have some hope of improving its society.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialDemocrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialDemocrats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialDemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socailism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socailism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USDemocracy</span></a></p>
yianiris<p>What you call <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a> is late stage <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a>, you can't have non-neoliberal capitalism, and you can't have a <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/socialdemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialdemocracy</span></a> either. </p><p>As long as this myth of non-neoliberal capitalism exists things will only get worse. And the pseudo left of reformers and pseudo-<a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/socialists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialists</span></a> have a large responsibility in reproducing this myth.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>aral</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a> as religion bankrupted</p>
Astrius<p>People are seeing Bernie and AOC attempt to rise up against billionaires and oligarchy and are now calling themselves socialists, and that is good, but Bernie and AOC are more social democrats rather than socialists. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BernieSanders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BernieSanders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AOC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialDemocracy</span></a></p>
Wokerati<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Communism</span></a> seems like a good idea until you realise it requires an autocratic vanguard.</p><p>Likewise <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchism</span></a> seems like a good idea until you discover communal factions which necessitate a social contract.</p><p>In between is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialDemocracy</span></a>. That also seems like a good idea until you find out that half of the public are hypnotised by the propaganda of special interests.</p><p>Good arguments made from each side. The left care more about public interest, but that is also why we squirm more over policy.</p>
𝗖 𝗔 𝗧<p>Attention Democratic Socialists, Social Democrats, and all other reformist socialists:</p><p>Capitalists will not give up their power voluntarily. Capitalism will not be abolished peacefully. The working class must remove capitalists from power and abolished capitalism by force.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democraticsocialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democraticsocialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialdemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialdemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reformism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reformism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"People aren't crazy, people aren't stupid, they understand that this is an unjust world. That you can be filthy rich without working, and that you can work two jobs and still can't afford to find a home. That's the reality, for millions of people in the Western world, and if we don't fix that they'll never vote for us again."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/FransTimmermans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FransTimmermans</span></a>, Leader of Dutch Labour party, 2025</p><p><a href="https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/02/122-how-europe-can-survive-trump-frans-timmermans/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alastaircampbell.org/2025/02/1</span><span class="invisible">22-how-europe-can-survive-trump-frans-timmermans/</span></a></p><p>Hey US Democrats, are you taking notes?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/SocialDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialDemocracy</span></a></p>
M. Ní Sídach<p>One of the most counter-intuitive justifications for refusing to stop mindlessly competing and work co-operatively toward a shared common good is that it is more of a strain, takes more effort, with less return on investment than working alone.</p><p>The rationale most often heard is that the person is sick, disabled, tired, beaten down, overwhelmed, with the implication being that somehow a shared burden is heavier?</p><p>Based on that logic, extended families, communities, tribes, villages, towns would never form except by coercion.</p><p>It is a circle that cannot be squared.<br><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/COOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COOP</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CooperativeCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CooperativeCulture</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CooperativeCapital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CooperativeCapital</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MutualAid</span></a> to secure the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GneralWelfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GneralWelfare</span></a> and a shared <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CommonGood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommonGood</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EconomicDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicDemocracy</span></a> for <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SocialDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialDemocracy</span></a></p>
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p>[Canada] 80k+ people in Ontario homeless in 2024<br><a href="https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/more-than-80-000-people-in-ontario-were-homeless-in-2024-new-report-finds-1.7169953" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">toronto.ctvnews.ca/more-than-8</span><span class="invisible">0-000-people-in-ontario-were-homeless-in-2024-new-report-finds-1.7169953</span></a></p><p>* Association of Municipalities of Ontario<br>* 40K (half) of those people homeless 6+ mo.<br>* 25% more people in shelters/streets cf. 2 yr ago</p><p>Reports on Ontario’s Homelessness Crisis, Water &amp; Wastewater Utility Feasibility<br><a href="https://www.amo.on.ca/policy/health-emergency-and-social-services/reports-ontarios-homelessness-crisis-water-and" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amo.on.ca/policy/health-emerge</span><span class="invisible">ncy-and-social-services/reports-ontarios-homelessness-crisis-water-and</span></a><br><a href="https://www.amo.on.ca/sites/default/files/assets/DOCUMENTS/Reports/2025/2025-01-08-EndingChronicHomelessnessinOntario.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amo.on.ca/sites/default/files/</span><span class="invisible">assets/DOCUMENTS/Reports/2025/2025-01-08-EndingChronicHomelessnessinOntario.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ontario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ontario</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/homelessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homelessness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AffordableHousing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AffordableHousing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/precarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>precarity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inflation</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/corportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corportations</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PrivateEquity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrivateEquity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WealthTax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WealthTax</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialDemocracy</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"There is a way to set up your fiscal and welfare institutions that avoids both marriage penalties and marriage bonuses, though this approach is rarely mentioned in the US policy discourse. The solution has three pieces to it:</p><p>- Tax all income personally. In our current system, Medicare, Social Security, and Unemployment taxes are assessed on each individual’s personal income while the federal income tax is assessed on tax units that combine spousal income and then apply different rates based on whether an individual is filing singly, jointly, or as a single parent. We should change the federal income tax so that it is assessed on each individual’s personal income just like Medicare, Social Security, and Unemployment taxes are. This would make it so that tax situations do not change based on marriage.</p><p>- Provide welfare benefits personally. Welfare benefit eligibility should also be based on the circumstances of specific individuals not families. Unemployed people should get unemployment benefits regardless of how much money others in their family or household earn. The same for disabled people, elderly people, children, and so on. Some of our benefits already work like this, but others do not. By providing benefits to individuals based on their personal circumstances, you make it so that their benefit situations do not change based on marriage.</p><p>- Eliminate means tests. Welfare benefit eligibility and levels should be based on an individual’s current status (e.g., whether they are unemployed, disabled, on leave, a student) and, for income-smoothing benefits, their prior earnings. As with (2), this ensures that family composition does not end up affecting benefit eligibility.</p><p>Of course, this just describes the ideal form of the universal social democratic welfare state. This should come as no surprise."</p><p><a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/01/universalism-welfare-states-marriage-medicaid" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jacobin.com/2025/01/universali</span><span class="invisible">sm-welfare-states-marriage-medicaid</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/WelfareState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WelfareState</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Universalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Universalism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medicaid</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialDemocracy</span></a></p>
𝗖 𝗔 𝗧<p>No, I don't want cotton candy colored capitalist oppression. I want complete working-class liberation from capitalism. I want socialism.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialdemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialdemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a></p>
Tim Locke 🇨🇦♥🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpKsygbNLT4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=fpKsygbNLT</span><span class="invisible">4</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/feudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feudalism</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/socialdemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialdemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a></p>