• Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    The biggest danger to US democracy is not Donald Trump or the Project 2025 christofascists, it’s the crushing ignorance of the US population. The gutting of the public education system means that many if not most Americans don’t understand that, “fascist” isn’t just a name like, “poopie head” that you call someone. It has a definition and clearly defined policies/behaviours that closely align with Trump/Vance/Johnston and their enablers. Communist and Marxist are very clearly defined things. Harris/Walz are pro business which means they are definitely NOT communists or Marxists.

    If the US population were better educated and more knowledgable they would dump these Retrumplican clowns and rebuild the Republican party from scratch.

    • Overshoot2648@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 months ago

      It intentional semantic drift and has been happening for a very long time. They erode harsh terms with hyperbole and make normal positions seem extreme by stereotype and strawman. That’s why I prefer specifying that I’m Mutualist rather than explain how the terms socialist/capitalist have drifted out of dichotomy or how the term anarchist and libertarian have become parodies of themselves.

      • Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        2 months ago

        Modern Libertariansm is ridiculous. Libertarianism is far better aligned with socialism (where the people do the work and the benefit stays with the people) than it is with either communism (where the people do all the work and the benefit goes to the government/plutocrats) or capitalism (where the people do all the work and the benefit goes to the wealthy/oligarchs.) Modern Libertarians are extremist right wing capitalist stooges.

        • ZMoney@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          2 months ago

          Your definition of communism further proves the earlier point about semantic drift. All of these terms are problematic because of their histories in the past 200 years.

          • Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            edit-2
            2 months ago

            That is not a definition of communism. It is a reduction based on the definition. It is also perfectly representative of every modern communist regime.

            • ZMoney@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              0
              ·
              2 months ago

              It’s a reduction based on the history of regimes that call themselves communist… You don’t see a problem here? Maybe I’m just being pedantic but Marxian communism doesn’t have anything in common with any form of government in history. It’s more of an idealized state (state meaning condition, not polity). Nobody, apart from so-called primitive communist societies, can claim to be communist.

              • Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                0
                ·
                2 months ago

                … I’m just being pedantic …

                And trying to derail the conversation by distracting from my point wich was that modern libertarians are extremist right wing stooges.