If you’re not a yank, why are you using their definition of liberal? In the US, liberals don’t have any socialist policy, while liberals in the rest of the world all have social liberalism. Heavy pro-DNC sentiment? What? the 13 people who downvoted you? Most of whom aren’t even regulars in this community.
I’ve also never seen anyone in this community actually defend capitalism. Capital, in its current state, is falling apart and proving itself to be unsustainable. Find me anyone who’s defending capitalism, and I’ll challenge them on that.
I was using the US definition of liberalism because we were discussing a US topic. My fault for not specifying. As for the heavy pro-DNC sentiment, i see it often. There are more Americans than any other nationality combined on Lemmy, and by extension, this community. Therefore, i see it more than I’d expect when this community seemed to have been supposed to cater more to leftists who were critical of the very radical wing.
Now I’m by no means saying this is the default here, most users here are in fact very critical of capitalism, the problem, however, is that many here think they can do genuine socialist organizing within capitalist parties—who by the way have stopped at nothing to shirk their more radical counterparts. Just look at Zohran Mamdani for example, his policies are no more radical than Polanski’s Green party, but democrats were hesitant to endorse him. Nevertheless, there still exists a great many who think organising can be done through the DNC. I still use the term liberal to refer to these individuals: socialist in will, liberal in praxis.
If you’re not a yank, why are you using their definition of liberal? In the US, liberals don’t have any socialist policy, while liberals in the rest of the world all have social liberalism. Heavy pro-DNC sentiment? What? the 13 people who downvoted you? Most of whom aren’t even regulars in this community.
I’ve also never seen anyone in this community actually defend capitalism. Capital, in its current state, is falling apart and proving itself to be unsustainable. Find me anyone who’s defending capitalism, and I’ll challenge them on that.
I was using the US definition of liberalism because we were discussing a US topic. My fault for not specifying. As for the heavy pro-DNC sentiment, i see it often. There are more Americans than any other nationality combined on Lemmy, and by extension, this community. Therefore, i see it more than I’d expect when this community seemed to have been supposed to cater more to leftists who were critical of the very radical wing.
https://lemmy.world/comment/21430350. Here’s a discussion i had with someone a while ago on this comm where they defended capitalism.
Now I’m by no means saying this is the default here, most users here are in fact very critical of capitalism, the problem, however, is that many here think they can do genuine socialist organizing within capitalist parties—who by the way have stopped at nothing to shirk their more radical counterparts. Just look at Zohran Mamdani for example, his policies are no more radical than Polanski’s Green party, but democrats were hesitant to endorse him. Nevertheless, there still exists a great many who think organising can be done through the DNC. I still use the term liberal to refer to these individuals: socialist in will, liberal in praxis.
Ah, that’s right, my b. Nah, my fault, you were right to use the US definition.
Curious that’s the same user and both posts aren’t particularly related to tankies.
Holy shit it IS the same user. I never even noticed 😅. It IS quite suspect isn’t it