In the USA anybody with center leaning tendencies thinks of “socialism” as all the bad things that happened under communism, but democratic socialism is more palatable since it has private property and voting. I understand this is partly a problem of the right using those words to instill fear based on remaining cold war feelings, but still the challenge here is to educate to show how democratic socialists governments are not Soviet style communists. I personally prefer the hybrid of democratic and some capitalistic aspects being mixed in. I don’t think communism can ever work based on the massive experiment we’ve already had with it that failed. If China is doing well it’s clearly because of the capitalism mixed in.
If I were to evangelize for socialism within EA I would definitely stay on using “democratic socialist” language, or it’ll get slammed harder. And I’d educate on the private property and voting aspects.
I’d personally like to see EA be less Utilitarian and be able to meet more in the middle with social movement interventions rather than just individuals...that might help democratic socialism to more accept EA also, and for EA to accept it.
In the USA anybody with center leaning tendencies thinks of “socialism” as all the bad things that happened under communism, but democratic socialism is more palatable since it has private property and voting. I understand this is partly a problem of the right using those words to instill fear based on remaining cold war feelings, but still the challenge here is to educate to show how democratic socialists governments are not Soviet style communists. I personally prefer the hybrid of democratic and some capitalistic aspects being mixed in. I don’t think communism can ever work based on the massive experiment we’ve already had with it that failed. If China is doing well it’s clearly because of the capitalism mixed in.
If I were to evangelize for socialism within EA I would definitely stay on using “democratic socialist” language, or it’ll get slammed harder. And I’d educate on the private property and voting aspects.
I’d personally like to see EA be less Utilitarian and be able to meet more in the middle with social movement interventions rather than just individuals...that might help democratic socialism to more accept EA also, and for EA to accept it.