Not so fast, what kind of “anti-capitalist” is praising Elon Musk and retweeting Peter Thiel?

Maybe the culture war is the answer to the healthcare problem?

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    All capitalism is anti-progressivism, and you will never catch that football until you figure that out, Charlie Brown.

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      If that’s what you think, that’s fine. I don’t really care. But, if progressivism can’t be capitalist then people like Bernie Sanders and AOC aren’t progressives, since they’re not anti-capitalists. They advocate for a capitalist system that has a robust social safety net that’s funded by a progressive tax system.

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      In modern political discourse, progressivism is often associated with social liberalism, a left-leaning type of liberalism, and social democracy. Within economic progressivism, there is some ideological variety on the social liberal to social democrat continuum, as well as occasionally some variance on cultural issues; examples of this include some Christian democrat and conservative-leaning communitarian movements. While many ideologies can fall under the banner of progressivism, both the current and historical movement are characterized by a critique of unregulated capitalism, desiring a more active democratic government to take a role in safeguarding human rights, bringing about cultural development, and being a check-and-balance on corporate monopolies. There are differences in specific approaches between factions, including capitalist-leaning social liberals and social democrats versus some anti-capitalist democratic socialists.

      There are differences in specific approaches between factions, including capitalist-leaning social liberals and social democrats versus some anti-capitalist democratic socialists.

      From Wikipedia.

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        I n c o r r e c t A g a i n

        They aim for gradual legislative change in a capitalist hellscape. Both are stated democratic socialists.

        Personally, I think they’re fucking dreaming, but they’re doing what they can.