That seems pretty dis-analogous to me—while exact definitions vary, communism does have a fairly precise thing its referring to—the state or collective worker ownership of the means of production, abolition of free markets etc. Supporting a minimum wage doesn’t make someone a communist because 1) they probably don’t support the nationalisation of all industry and 2) many communist countries didn’t actually have a minimum wage. I think it’s fair to say that, all else equal, a minimum wage supporter is probably closer to the communist side of the spectrum than someone who opposes them, but they’re still a long way away.
The first definition I get from google for ‘eugenics’ is
the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable.
which seems like it includes a lot of the things described in this post that normal people support like incest avoidance and your example of embryo screening?
In contrast the first definition I get for ‘communism’ is very narrow and makes it clear that necessary components include things most people don’t believe (class war, public ownership):
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
That seems pretty dis-analogous to me—while exact definitions vary, communism does have a fairly precise thing its referring to—the state or collective worker ownership of the means of production, abolition of free markets etc. Supporting a minimum wage doesn’t make someone a communist because 1) they probably don’t support the nationalisation of all industry and 2) many communist countries didn’t actually have a minimum wage. I think it’s fair to say that, all else equal, a minimum wage supporter is probably closer to the communist side of the spectrum than someone who opposes them, but they’re still a long way away.
Precisely. And supporting subsidized contraception is a long way away from both the formal definition of eugenics and its common understanding.
The first definition I get from google for ‘eugenics’ is
which seems like it includes a lot of the things described in this post that normal people support like incest avoidance and your example of embryo screening?
In contrast the first definition I get for ‘communism’ is very narrow and makes it clear that necessary components include things most people don’t believe (class war, public ownership):