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Add Option to Label Oneself Socialist

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UtilityMonster

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I am not a socialist, but many members on this board are. There should be an option under political views for socialist. Maybe add anarchist as well.
 
UtilityMonster said:
I am not a socialist, but many members on this board are. There should be an option under political views for socialist. Maybe add anarchist as well.
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We've been suggesting this for many months now but the board management don't want it. I don't know why. Possibly for the same reason there are no socialist mods.

Anarchists are libertarians. You could have Right Libertarian and Left Libertarian, I suppose.
 
Hey, UtilityMonster. Come over to join the fun?
 
When I first joined I lobbied or this change :/
 
I agree that socialist should be added as a label. Right now the socialists are spread out between liberal, very liberal, independent, and other.
 
atrasicarius said:
Hey, UtilityMonster. Come over to join the fun?
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Lol, yeah. Considering I only really used the Politics forum on RS, this is just that plus hundreds of more people with more diverse opinions and a wider array of topics. Not sure how long I'll last, though.
 
Just imagine all of the self-induced labels. The independent posters would just kill us all.
 
Andalublue said:
Why label yourself something you're not? No Marxist is 'very liberal', and a Leninist is possibly the antithesis of 'very liberal'.
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It never ceasing to amaze me how so many people fail to understand political definitions. Liberal is probably the most misused political term around. Socialism and liberalism being the two most commonly misappropriated.

Paul
 
I think they probably considered allowing someone to claim themselves as Socialist was one and the same with trolling, and that it would generate immediate animosity between people because...you know...socialists are evil.

I am not socialist...capitalist...or anything specifically. I think Socialists have been anchored to Nazi's (especially since socialism didn't originate with the Nazi's and it's basic, original concepts had been adopted and transformed to fit the mold of certain thinkers) and so widely viewed as the cancer of social strategy. The titanic efforts of propaganda used against socialism probably had children looking under their beds for socialism a while back...and now, i guess.

Socialism isn't evil It's actually noble, to an extent, the same way we have a limited democracy. A family works on the same principle. So does the military. A few look after the interests of the whole. Socialism is the new boogeyman. And it's got people shaking.
 
makkam said:
I think they probably considered allowing someone to claim themselves as Socialist was one and the same with trolling, and that it would generate immediate animosity between people because...you know...socialists are evil.

I am not socialist...capitalist...or anything specifically. I think Socialists have been anchored to Nazi's (especially since socialism didn't originate with the Nazi's and it's basic, original concepts had been adopted and transformed to fit the mold of certain thinkers) and so widely viewed as the cancer of social strategy. The titanic efforts of propaganda used against socialism probably had children looking under their beds for socialism a while back...and now, i guess.

Socialism isn't evil It's actually noble, to an extent, the same way we have a limited democracy. A family works on the same principle. So does the military. A few look after the interests of the whole. Socialism is the new boogeyman. And it's got people shaking.
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Nazis.... *deep pissed off breath* Were not socialist.... They were fascist... *agian*
 
American said:
Just put very liberal.
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I Never want to be labeled as a Liberal, even a "very" so one. It still implies I am a Liberal, which I am not.
 
Juiposa said:
I Never want to be labeled as a Liberal, even a "very" so one. It still implies I am a Liberal, which I am not.
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I would also dispute the idea that going as deep into liberalism as one can transforms it into socialism. I think they are entirely different. Liberalism is essentially welfare state capitalism, while socialism fundamentally rejects capitalism. Although, don't waste your time explaining that to a conservative - far too difficult.
 
UtilityMonster said:
I would also dispute the idea that going as deep into liberalism as one can transforms it into socialism. I think they are entirely different. Liberalism is essentially welfare state capitalism, while socialism fundamentally rejects capitalism. Although, don't waste your time explaining that to a conservative - far too difficult.
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Oh I see, you're smarter than the rest of us. :roll: 12 freaking posts and the hackery has already begun.
 
American said:
Oh I see, you're smarter than the rest of us. :roll: 12 freaking posts and the hackery has already begun.
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Irrespective of the 'hackery' lets hope the penny dropped at post 22,114...

Paul
 
American said:
Oh I see, you're smarter than the rest of us. :roll: 12 freaking posts and the hackery has already begun.
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Maybe you understand that, but conservatives do have a problem conflating liberalism and socialism... they also have a problem conflating centrism and socialism - another story.
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
There is a Socialist label available.
It is part of the permission groups in the User Control Panel.
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We would like for it be available to be put as a lean. Not just a permission group.
 
I strongly support the suggestion to add the options 'Socialist' and 'Anarchist' to the list of availible political leanings.
 
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