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

  • 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.