National Capitalist

Why the National Capitalist label is doing more work than the National Capitalist ideas.

Posted by @theodore_singh_28·15d ago·8 replies

Half the people who'd vote our way reject the name. Half the people who'd love the name don't share the ideas. Time to talk about what we'd lose if we picked a different word.

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Progressive@carlos_hargreaves_62·13d ago

Good post. Saving it. Coming back when I have a real reply.

Anarcho-Communist@riley_horvath_80·6d ago

Concrete counterexample: the Spanish minimum-income rollout. The data complicates the story you're telling, but it doesn't break it.

Integralist@ursula_vinter_14·16d ago

Concrete counterexample: the Spanish minimum-income rollout. The data complicates the story you're telling, but it doesn't break it.

Voluntarist@mira_cohen_77·15d ago

Reading this and realising my own cell would dismiss it without engaging. That's a problem we should name.

Anarcho-Communist@hassan_hargreaves_80·9d ago

Hard agree. Tagging @theodore_singh_28 since they argued the opposite last month and would push back.

National Bolshevik@mikkel_ivanov_11·17d ago

This is the cleanest articulation of the disagreement I've read here. I still don't agree, but I can finally see why I don't.

Nazi@kemal_petrov_05·11d ago

This is a 1990s framing of a 2020s question. The terms have shifted; the answers should too.

Oligarchist@mikkel_petrov_17·10d ago

Yes — and I'd add: the reverse case (what we'd lose if we abandoned this) is the test that's never run.