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@lemmy.blahaj.zoneAh, I see! I was only disagreeing with the inclusion of authoritarian socialism, which in my mind is an oxymoron.
Democracy can take many shapes and I would argue anarchy must always be democratic as well, even if it is way more democratic than current systems.
Socialism doesn’t dictate a government structure
I disagree! Socialism by definition requires the people to own their own homes and the places where they work, which is difficult in a government not run by the people. Socialism must be democratic, anything else is just red fascism.
it can be via an authoritarian state that (claims to) represent the worker.
I may have been hasty, seems you agree! But I would like to stress that any government which claims to be socialist but makes unions illegal and enforces capitalism and private property shouldn't really get to call itself socialist or communist. They're just state capitalist oligarchies.
Norway is also capitalistic, but everyone is rich there. It's pretty good here, but not that good.
Wage inequality is way lower here in Norway than in most of the world, but it's unfortunately on the rise, in addition to right wing politics becoming increasingly prevalent. Things are good here because inequality was always low, and therefore unions could "win", unlike in the US where unions were successfully opposed by powerful corporations.
Norway is slowly becoming worse, but way slower than the rest of the world because unions and the welfare state stops foreign and domestic companies from exploiting us as much as they want to.
Not in this meme, but in the original. It implies that equality is not a good thing because surely the people calling for it haven't taken into account that everyone is different and has different needs. It shows equity as being the same situation but tailored for everyone's needs, and justice as being the same situation but with whatever created the inequality in the first place as having been removed.
My issue is that people don't use these words in this way, the people calling for equality always want to provide according to peoples needs, and to remove the things causing inequality.
I really really hate the original version of this meme. No one uses equality, equity, and justice to mean the things the meme implies >:|
Non binary covers a range of identities. Some feel like neither man nor woman is a good fit for them, or that they don't really identify with the concept of gender at all. Others partially identify with one or both of the "binary" genders. It can be difficult to understand a feeling, sensation, or identity which you have no basis for understanding or if as you say there is something stopping you from properly considering it.
Like others I would recommend experimenting with your identity to see if there's something that feels comfortable to you. Perhaps there are LGBTQ+ spaces you could safely join where you live? Or perhaps there are online spaces like this one you could hang out in? Reading and talking about identities can be very helpful. Check out the links in the sidebar as well if you haven't already, especially the gender dysphoria bible.
I mean you could be a socialist. We have mainstream socialist parties here in Norway and that's certainly some ways away. But yeah, I was trying to be charitable since the point was to explain how it can be used as an insult rather than anything else :P
What is the purpose of this post? Discuss it in the previous meta post instead. It's not that old.
People who use liberal as a slur typically object to the capitalist and/or free market parts, or as an insult to people who support the status quo since liberalism is the ruling ideology of today.
While I am no fan of liberalism, the user you are replying to seems rather confused as this instance is fairly leftist, with the majority of users leaning left (this is my experience at least). Some leftists brand anything that goes against their warped version of socialism as liberal, which is what I'm guessing is happening here. That or they object to there being centrists here at all.