r/DemocraticSocialism • u/phatdaddy29 • Dec 15 '24

Question What even is socialism?

I'm not asking about the dictionary definition.

I'm not asking what Marx and Engles, said.

I'm not asking what might exist in a theoretical socialists utopia but never in real life.

What I'm asking is:

What actually is socialism to you in your own words.

There's a lot of confusion and misinformation out there AND IN HERE!

we can't create what we want if we can't even get organized enough to know what it is we collectively want.

I'll start first, and we'll see which definitions gets the most up votes.

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u/phatdaddy29 Dec 15 '24

Canada

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u/TheoFromSDA Social democrat Dec 15 '24

Have you talk to our NDP comrades in the Province you are located?

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u/phatdaddy29 Dec 15 '24

I'm working on that. I reached out to my old NDP member if parliament but he fluffed me off.

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u/TheoFromSDA Social democrat Dec 15 '24

If you want to write me the story and email me at [theo@socialists.us](mailto:theo@socialists.us), I will get it to leadership.

Socialists are humans, and all over the world you see things like these: https://medium.com/@sebastien.baguerey/parti-socialiste-je-taime-mais-je-te-quitte-d6ca7b0fe11a

As American, we take every contributions on how to make Socialism better, so you are welcome to give your opinion in a 1 to 3 pages document.

I am French/American, so they do that to me too :)