I am trying to understand as much as possible about socialism as well as other leftist ideologies, and looking around i’ve seen many being critical about democratic socialism, but i honestly struggle to understand why that is such a bad idea as some say. I get that it’s incompatible with ML, but it doesn’t sound so unrealistic and unreasonable to me, so… can you explain? Excuse the ignorance, but as i said socialism is a new topic for me, i mean no offense to anybody

  • chobeat@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    the decision of what’s possible or impossible shoudln’t be done through ideological discourse but through empirical practice. Ideologies are not tools for strategic development and they should stop being treated as such.

    • RiverRock@lemmy.ml
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      17 hours ago

      the decision of what’s possible or impossible shoudln’t be done through ideological discourse but through empirical practice

      I agree with this. However, It has now been almost two hundred years of empirical practice, and the data is in.

      • chobeat@lemmy.ml
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        15 hours ago

        yeah, we know that the conditions on which these practices developed don’t exist anymore, the context keep shifting and anything that is conceptually stable for more than a decade probably is unfit to create the change we need.