No, but like... dude, you could flip half of those supposed traits between categories and it would read exactly the same. That's why I called it astrology.

Perhaps you just did a bad job of presenting the book's ideas, but I've just read through a summary of it and it didn't exactly make me reconsider my knee jerk reaction.

This is your brain on idealism, just pure vibes. Political astrology.

I think a factor is just S Korea's working class being squeezed that much harder than many other places. They're calling it the "gender war" but it's all just people being forced to live in unbearable conditions while getting more and more isolated from each other.

I thought that's what you were talking about, only just now see your username

7. Choosing the distro most aligned with Juche ideology - Red Star OS

I'm a debate pervert but I'm not that dedicated to the bit. Searching your name in the modlog was all I was willing to do.

Anyway perhaps if you simply stopped apologizing for genocides, you would no longer be accused of genocide apologia? Just a suggestion.

This is one of the most inane threads I've ever seen on Lemmy. Nuance is having a fine understanding of a topic, while the line I'm quoting is taking a complicated topic and boiling it down to a truism. It's the most obvious and classic form of anti-intellectualism and it certainly does not reflect a nuanced understanding of socialism or communism.

So I guess the problem is that socialism and communism are kinda used in two different ways. One way refers to a political program, the other refers to a hypothetical stage of economic development.

The political programs are more clearly defined. Socialism is an umbrella term for a lot of specific anticapitalist political programs, of which one calls itself Communism. Communism is for people who like the Soviet Union and China, but there's basically no smoke in that ideology in western countries, where Social Democracy and Democratic Socialism are your biggest left wing contenders.

But "socialism" and "communism" as stages of economic development are moving targets, impossible to pin down because they're entirely hypothetical and there are only a couple countries that have even tried to achieve them. Was the Soviet Union communist? Well, it was lead by Communists in the political program sense, but I don't think anyone would argue that it achieved communism in the economic and social development sense. Modern day China, too, is Communist in the political sense, but even by their own metrics they are still capitalist, and see socialism as a goal they are working towards (if you believe their rhetoric and don't think it's all just cynical, which many western socialists do).

So while the Chinese Communists have their own definition of practical socialism, western leftists are not in power and all of our ideas remain purely theoretical as a result. Add to this the fact that there is no major leftist political org in western countries for the socialists to rally around and you get more definitions of socialism and communism (the stages of economic development) than you can shake a stick at. This leads to the problem you're describing, where socialism appears to have no solid meaning at all, because the notion of it is so phantasmal.

But I don't think that you can dismiss socialism or its results as "capitalism, but different," because the whole thing about socialism is that new power structures create new incentive structures and therefore even if there are some superficial elements of capitalism that remain - like the use of currency - under a socialist regime the outcomes should be more equal, fair, and democratic. There are numerous historical examples of these better alternative outcomes, but of course they've all been relentlessly propagandized against in Western countries so that the average person doesn't realize that there is a better way to run society than the one they were born into.

It makes perfect sense if you understand how nuance works.

Saying "if you do too much socialism, it's communism" is exactly the opposite of a nuanced understanding. Please read a pamphlet.

If you had read your own sources then you would have posted the article you are quoting from now first. It’s weird that you assume someone will click on every link in your Wikipedia page. A war is not necessarily genocide. I think you have trouble with understanding what genocide is. You are simply grasping at straws. USA is now killing people in Gaza? So anyone who does business with United States is now USAs fault? “Death to America”? You’re calling for death to Americans while at the same time you are crying about genocide. You’re nothing but a clown. Also, you’re from Iowa lmao. Please stop embarrassing yourself.

So for starters saying "a war is not necessarily a genocide" in response to an example of a genocidal act (America's continued bombing of Japan after it served no valid military purpose) is genocide apologia.

Secondly questioning the USA's role in the ongoing genocide in Gaza when the genocide is being explicitly carried out with American bombs is also genocide apologia.

Thirdly "Death to America" refers to the American political project, its imperialist ambitions and its global hegemony, not the mass killing of Americans that you seem to think it does, which is why saying "Death to America" is not a call to commit genocide and doesn't make the person you were arguing with a hypocrite.

The confusion stems from the fact that you seem not to know what you're talking about. Like at all.

If you go too far into one direction, it’s just communism

This is a misunderstanding so fundamental that it's a completely beaten dead horse of a joke.

My question is if it wasn't required before and is required now, what changed? It's not like Google has added a killer feature recently - this is almost certainly related to those shitty AI answers that are forcing your actual search results even further down the page than they were already.