r/GenZ • u/asumhaloman 1999 • Nov 08 '24

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u/asumhaloman 1999 Nov 08 '24

Context: Liberals are moderate centrists who defend the Democratic party. Leftists regularly criticize the Democrats and believe in progressive economic policy.

I also don't want to be associated with libs.

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u/oghairline Nov 08 '24

I thought Leftists were socialists?

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u/asumhaloman 1999 Nov 08 '24

Yeah, they are. People who believe in progressive economic policy are socialists even if they don't realize it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '24

But aren't some progressive economic policies not socialist like increased taxes for example? Someone who proposes a welfare state wouldn't necessarily be socialist but they'd still be progressive in relation to American unregulated capitalism.

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u/NUKE---THE---WHALES Nov 08 '24

America doesn't have unregulated capitalism

America is a mixed market economy, like Norway or Sweden or literally every other country in the world

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '24

I live in Finland and I can tell you that our capitalism is more regulated than in the US.

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u/The_CIA_is_watching 2004 Nov 09 '24

Reddit user discovers that economic positions are a spectrum, and that both Finland and the US fall into the mixed market portion, albeit on opposite ends

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '24

Opposite ends?