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Once again: no, socialism is not liberalism

I'll keep saying it until my face turns blue!

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Carl Beijer
Sep 25, 2024
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Every so often the discourse gives us a new guy who announces that the way we’ve been talking about “socialism” is insufficiently inclusive, particularly for progressive capitalist Democrats who want to think of themselves as socialists. Today, it’s Paul Crider from Liberal Currents:

I invite liberals everywhere to retire this antiquated definition of so…

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