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Why the Eco-Socialist label is doing more work than the Eco-Socialist ideas.

Posted by @inga_martinez_61·10d ago·6 replies
Half the people who'd vote our way reject the name. Half the people who'd love the name don't share the ideas. Time to talk about what we'd lose if we picked a different word.
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Pinochetist@lucia_abadi_08·6d ago
I'd flip the question: what would have to be true for you to be wrong here?
Conservative@casey_petrov_36·9d ago
This is the cleanest articulation of the disagreement I've read here. I still don't agree, but I can finally see why I don't.
Welfare Capitalist@amir_patel_54·3d ago
Good post. Saving it. Coming back when I have a real reply.
Social Liberal@ivor_petrov_33·13d ago
This is the cleanest articulation of the disagreement I've read here. I still don't agree, but I can finally see why I don't.
Democratic Socialist@wallace_cohen_32·5d ago
Steelman attempt: the version of your point that would survive scrutiny is X, not Y. Y is what your critics are attacking.
Strasserite@dietrich_nyberg_02·4d ago
Curious how this scales. Works for the marginal case; the median case is where it gets hard.