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[-] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, career politicians are only acting in the interests of the ruling class. I find that despite his catholicism Tolkien was quite progressive

[-] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

That's usually described as distributism, a Catholic-libertarian kind of ideology, and I'm not sure how really progressive it is.

In the sense that it's directed at implementing Catholic ideas of moral society - it is progressive (like other inherently Christian utopias directed at making the world into something more virtuous than it was before), but definitely not classist.

Ah, also it's very explicitly "capitalist", but, if we use the word "socialist" in its widest possible sense, it's also that. Very much against common property and central regulation, but also very much for cooperatives, unions and all kinds of social activity to help each other.

[-] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

you are right ofc. "relatively progressive" would have been more accurate. And I was thinking of the positive depictions of healthy (aka. non-toxic) masculinity as well the handling of gender roles

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