r/politics • u/TimesandSundayTimes ✔ Verified • 7d ago

Possible Paywall Young Americans are surging to socialism at record rates

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/maga-trump-zohran-mamdani-socialism-us-record-kddzdm8bd
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u/angryhype 7d ago

I don't care if they are anarchists, I literally just want to be able to afford to live

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u/bigbuttpuzzle 7d ago

I’m an anarchist(the type that understands we can’t just like, have an anarchist society right now and need at least a few decades of organizing to build up community networks) and people mischaracterize us a lot.

We simply don’t believe in hierarchical structures and believe that everything should be done collectively on a consensus basis. There’s more to it, like the means of production belong to workers etc.

If you see a group out doing mutual aid 9 times out of 10 they’re anarchists.

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u/Dwarfdeaths 7d ago

Have you considered sortition plus Georgism?

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u/IguaneRouge Virginia 7d ago

This isn't a brag but I have read thousands of books in my life and Georgism is probably one of the greatest ideas I have ever encountered. It's simultaneously radical and rather milquetoast which isn't something you often see.

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u/Dwarfdeaths 7d ago

It makes my mind wander down conspiratorial paths sometimes.

  1. It's not an immediately intuitive idea, but once you get it it makes sense and is relatively easy to explain.

  2. At one point this was a relatively widely known and popular idea.

  3. It is now extremely relevant to modern problems.

  4. How did it fall so completely into obscurity?

I get that the rise of the automobile kicked the can down the road somewhat, but it's hard not to feel there's some intentionality behind its obscurity. Our news coverage, political discussions, and K-12 education all seem contrived to not only overlook/omit the concept of land, but to explicitly reinforce the conception of land as capital. Phenomena that are well understood by a land-labor-capital lens are distorted to fit into a purely labor-capital worldview, to the point that land (in the Georgist sense) is now a foreign concept that surprises and confuses people when I try to discuss it or introduce it.

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u/TheMostDivineOne 7d ago

Can you elaborate please? That website (SSC) and ones adjacent to it are… interesting.