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US Politics 19w

just_a_bucket

 Under capitalism by the pressure of socialists or socialist adjacent individuals tbh one of the good reasons why America back in the day implemented socialist lite welfare policies was out of fear of revolts with Soviet backing
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US Politics 19w

blue__wave

 “How is socialism a radical idea” Then they just go on to name a bunch of things that have been done under capitalism. Who gaf at this point ig socialism just means when the government does a thing at this point.
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Anonymous 19w

1. It’s irrelevant to the question if it’s socialist or not. 2. That’s not true in every case and is generally overstated. Welfare existed before the Soviet Union, leaders were also moved to help with things like the Great Depression and the damages from world war 2.

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Anonymous replying to -> blue__wave 19w

Also none of this played out in pratice there weren’t any developed countries that fell to socialism bc they didn’t do welfare (which Marx predicted incorrectly, btw). It was bunch of post colonial and more feudal countries that went in the socialist direct.

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