Capitalism is not the opposite of socialism in fact the people in the picture advocate for nordic style socialism which is very much capitalism based just with strong safety nets.
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Nordic Style socialism is actually called social democracy. Americans are somehow latching onto the term given to them by the right.
Hopefully they will realize that the best America has ever been outside of racial and social issues is when FDR was president who was basically a social Democrat, although he preferred the term progressive and new nationalist. The decades after his economic reforms were the greatest time in American history, and then the Republicans got power again with Nixon and started to dismantle all of it, by the time Regan was in office, he killed organized labor and cut taxes on corporations leading to the current situation of hyper Inflationary debt based economics.
This is exactly what needs to happen again. A bold progressive president who DGAF and builds some monumental new social programs and revives a strong welfare state, taking back the word "welfare" because it's A GOOD thing to not watch your citizens starve to death in the street, and we once knew this.
It’s important to remember that the New Deal was a compromise between the Capitalists and the Labor Unions / Communists. There has to be a far left threat to Capital for the status quo to move to the left at all. That has been absent in the USA for decades (like you said, starting around Nixon time) which partially explains how far right the USA has moved with decline in labor’s share of profits, increasing wealth inequality and now all the way to fascist violence.
You will never get a president that just enacts sane social policies without a strong left, and that means organizing and Labor Unions.
Then Republicans get back into power and revert all the progress...
As long as the wealthy can put the finger on the scale with control of media and funding propaganda, the pendulum won't stop swinging.
One group does damage.
The next does some changes that will take about 4-20 years to fix that damage, and do not try to fix everything, letting some damage stay.
People are unhappy with the after-effects of the damage and switch again fooled by the propaganda, preventing further fixes from continuing.
The destructive group claims any improvements as their actions, and any problems as caused by the fixing group, and do some more things to make things even worse.
The damage eventually becomes patent again, so people switch once again.
And repeat.
And things slowly ratchet to worse and worse.
It's important to remember that the New Deal was a compromise between the Capitalists and the Labor Unions / Communists. There has to be a far left threat to Capital for the status quo to move to the left at all. That has been absent in the USA for decades (like you said, starting around Nixon time) which partially explains how far right the USA has moved with decline in labor's share of profits, increasing wealth inequality and now all the way to fascist violence.
The American left completely fails to use this. They will harp on socialism endlessly instead.
Not Americans, American media which is all completely controlled by oligarchs.
Americans don't know the difference between socialism and communism, and both makes them piss their pants in fear.
The right didn't give us "social democracy". You're very confused.
I think he meant that the right gave us the fear-word "socialism"
The right calls everybody who just wants healthcare a socialist. Wanting healthcare is not socialism.
So........ social democracy ?
Capitalism works best with strong rules in place to prevent psychopaths and sociopaths from expanding too large.
But those rules inevitably fail because under capitalism wealth always consolidates under the psychopaths and sociopaths. Like, there’s no way to have capitalism and not have that happen. It’s part of the fundamental structure of private ownership of capital.
Limit the amount of capital that can be individually owned. Wealth cap. Sociopaths are going to sociopath, make it so they can't have more money than a government and there wouldn't be so many problems.
Wealth cap paired with a wealth floor and UBI, and we're really cooking.
Absolutely agree!
The cap needsto be way, way lower. You don't need to to have more money than a government to buy a politician or buy media. And I think that small steps is all it takes for a class of the society to progressively take more and more power as they work to influence people and remove regulation.
Ok, institute a wealth cap and the people who have hit it will just bide their time until people get complacent, then start exerting power to roll it back. It happens with every reform and regulation that put limits on private ownership of capital. What we really need is to abolish private ownership entirely.
It should just be a continuing, progressive income tax. No breaks, no loopholes, no tax evasion. The left is focusing on a single, arbitrary number and it's a bad idea.
I'd argue it's an idea that's easy enough to convince others to vote for. Anything with "tax" in it, has and will be weaponized. Realistically, a wealth cap may not be the best solution, but its the only one simple enough that propaganda has a hard time twisting. It's an easy sell to those with a 5th grade reading level.
That's not just money, but any form of power (in every system over time). Fighting it seems to be the eternal struggle.
You know what stops that from happening?
A politically engaged populace. The vast majority of Americans just don't care.
Fully agree. Capitalism with strong safety net and social oversight is a really good system.
- Social safety net promotes risk taking for businesses, grows economy and balances society against extremes
- Social oversight prevents entities from gaming the system. There has to be a human dungeon master behind every system as every system can be gamed and corrupted within the rules of it. So external oversight is needed.
People like to hate on capitalism but capitalism + social oversight is really the best system.
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Exactly! Every widget that sells well leads the inventor to think they can effectively run societies. How the hell does anyone make that leap?
From the American point of view anything that even dares to suggest the possibility that there might be limitations to corporations' liberty to freely exploit and consume the population and their environment is communism, anarchy, heresy, and terrorism., and anathema to capitalism, democracy, and Freedom®(some limitations might apply).
I hope America tries a bit of socialism next because they clearly have the power to do so. The billionaires will not pack up and start leaving, I just don't see that ever happening. Especially when there are clear examples in California that is outcompeting every other state despite having higher taxes and more social programs.
More like “those who want to see 10% more socialism in their capitalism are feeling cautiously optimistic that the Democratic Party might change slightly.”
Until we start seeing some socialists in positions of power, passing socialist policies, I'm going to respectfully disagree.
They're right that capitalism is out; but look around. Socialism isn't in. Fascism is.
"Passing socialist policies" would require a majority in Congress. What you have right now, is a growing list of socialist politicians currently holding office. And they are having an impact on the direction things are heading.
You can totally have a "socialist worker's party" that is actually anti-Marxist. You can also privatize some state-owned enterprises to maximize profits while still calling it a socialist party. Might as well abolish the unions while you're at it. These labels are just marketing baits for luring in the working class.
The blueprint is out there, just look up the history of NSDAP, and you'll see what I mean.
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Aw man, just when not supporting Capitalism became illegal :/
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/trump-classifies-anti-capitalism-as-a-political-pre-crime
Capitalism has always needed lots of support from the government in order to work (and I think we hurt Capitalism's feelings).
Due to history, many East-Europeans (and US apparently) seem to understand socialism as communist dictatorship, because soviet puppets liked to call themselves that.
if you say "democratic socialism" everybody seems to understand it more as the Nordic model.
Political propaganda really likes to use that confusion.
The nordic model is social democracy. There's a big difference. Democratic socialism is socialism but just through election instead of revolution.
For me, it’s simply that socialism is a sliding scale.
Did you help out the grandmother that had fallen off her mobility device on the sidewalk? Congratulations, you’re partly SOCIALIST. She didn’t pay for that assistance and yet you gave her value anyway.
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Or as the republicans will call it: Anti-capitalism.
I actually like that term better. Hell yeah, anti-capitalism!
That makes you a terrorist in america.
Executive Orders only cover the executive branch of the US federal government.
They aren't laws, they don't create laws & they damn sure don't override the Constitution.
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Finally!
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