Woo! It's live. 🎉
Today for #OnlySky: the "socialisms" piece I mentioned.
This isn't just a list of different definitions of the term.
I wanted to write an explainer to help readers understand bigger questions about work, political life, personal relations, & the road to societal reform that many have tried to answer (differently!) under an umbrella term more often used as a scare tactic.
Can we ever have a more mature conversation about how to build a better world?
Wholeheartedly agreed, JG! There's a wealth of intersections to be found around this topic, and we're better for it when trying to think about how best to build a world that includes and shelters all.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read the piece, to comment on it, to share your truth, and to link that most excellent and timeless speech.
I don't have time right now to read all of your essay, (I'm a slow reader), but what I have read so far is very engaging.
I became interested in Socialism when I was in my mid-20s and soon discovered that my supposed liberal friends believed it to be communism. I wasn't expecting their criticism to say the least nor being told I should go live in Russia.
Oh, thanks for taking the time to read even a bit of it, and to share your experience.
Words are funny, aren't they?
Before some of our modern divisions between socialism and capital-C Communism, there was communism... and there still is small-c commun(al)ism today.
It all gets very confusing when we focus on the names of things, instead of reflecting on the actual *ideas* behind so many colliding terms.
Sorry your social-democrat friends were so cruel! No call for that, ever.
@MLClark And then there's the study of introverts, anti-socialisms. 🤣 🤣 🤣
@MLClark Great explainer!! I admit the t-shirt pic threw me (Soviet regime memories). Another aspect of societal reform that predates the -isms is the Golden Rule and Love thy neighbour, now referenced (and weaponized by the far right) as Social Justice. Yes! We can have a mature conversation when we open the tent to both those that come from a philo-political view and those that come from a faith-based view (and all in-between)!❤️ I’m reminded of MLK Jr.’s Nobel speech: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1964/king/acceptance-speech/