Re:Soaring Student Debt Prompts Calls for Relief
by the_watcher on Friday September 16, 2016 @07:09PM
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Disagreeing with Norway being socialist doesn't make neosocialism not a thing. Not wanting something to be a term doesn't stop it from being one.
Re:Soaring Student Debt Prompts Calls for Relief
by thatcat on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @10:27PM
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It's interesting that Norway is ranked first on the democracy index, yet most Americans view it's policies as 'socialist'.
Re:Soaring Student Debt Prompts Calls for Relief
by friendlygrammar on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @10:57PM
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The democracy index is bs and most Americans don't even know what the word socialist means. So what is your point because you just stated two completely unrelated facts to what is currently being discussed.
Re:Soaring Student Debt Prompts Calls for Relief
by thatcat on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @12:41PM
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My point was that some core values of democracy (equality and justice) are incorrectly perceived as 'socialist' in current American linguistic usage. If this were corrected, it is much more likely that American's would support a more democratic, Norwegian governance model.
Clearly the two "well known" publications (the most preeminent Marxist journals) listed in that wikipedia article and the fact that the wikipedia article's definition of neo socialism has absolutely nothing to do with Norways economic model point to the fact that the parent comment definitely didn't make up that word out of thin air.
Norway is not socialist, neosocialist, or whatever dumb made up "socialism" you people try to come up with.
Also something having a wiki page on any website and being used in a couple of journals does not make something a term/word. It only indicates that someone wants it to be a term/word.