• geissi@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    Socialism has other elements

    I think your argument might be more convincing if you actually mentioned these elements.

    Marx did not think it was socialism

    Other people had other definitions even before Marx, so I’m not sure why his should be the only valid definition.

    Just my two cents.

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      3 days ago

      I did in other comments. Usually because he utterly destroyed those other socialists in arguments. Proudhon is basically the main pre marx socialist, invented mutualism, I like him, but it’s just easier to say you’re a mutualist, because Marx wrote against him and most socialists see his ideas as primitive or wrong or “utopian”.

      Then there were the Christian socialists. They are somewhat accepted. But you know, in Christian circles.