Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoELI5 What is the hate against socialism? I mean doesn't it mean a system where the people take care of themselves and neighbors?message-squaremessage-square322linkfedilinkarrow-up1430arrow-down126
arrow-up1404arrow-down1message-squareELI5 What is the hate against socialism? I mean doesn't it mean a system where the people take care of themselves and neighbors?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square322linkfedilink
minus-squareReginald_T_Biter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·4 months agoPeople are scared of it because every incarnation of it has been hellish shit show. No matter how many times people moralise about it that simple truth is always looming.
minus-squarebirdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoI dunno, the Nordic model has worked pretty well. And so did Tito’s Yugoslavian market socialism. Or the Zapatistas.
minus-squareiglou@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·4 months agoJust because a state self-proclaims to be socialist, doesn’t mean it is.
People are scared of it because every incarnation of it has been hellish shit show. No matter how many times people moralise about it that simple truth is always looming.
I dunno, the Nordic model has worked pretty well. And so did Tito’s Yugoslavian market socialism. Or the Zapatistas.
Just because a state self-proclaims to be socialist, doesn’t mean it is.