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blackbootz  ·  2893 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I'm at the Bernie Sanders rally in Baltimore

It may be a quibbling point. But when you say that you, "as a socialist, can't help but disagree," with my prediction of an FDR-like person coming to power within a generation, I don't understand how your qualification "as a socialist" makes clearer why it is you disagree. So I asked if maybe you were referring to a Marxist overthrow of the capital-owning class.

Socialism is merely public ownership of the means of production. I don't see why there's not multiple routes to that end, or why there's a reason in principle that that sort of agenda couldn't be enacted via popular vote, as opposed to a violent overthrow.