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[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

I don't really agree with designating social programs themselves as "right" or "left," I think once you move outside the umbrella of Socialism vs Capitalism those descriptors cease to be useful. Something being paid for with taxes doesn't make it anti-Capitalist, Lockheed Martin for example is quite right wing but depends entirely on tax dollars.

That being said, I do agree that conservative media calls social programs "Socialist" or "Communist" to fear-monger, but I also think liberal media uses terms like "Socialist" for distinctly Capitalist economies like Norway in order to blunt what Socialism actually is and make it compatible with Capitalism, defanging revolutionary and radical sentiment.

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