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[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I've never seen subsistence living as a core belief of any large number of socialists. At least, no larger than the average amount of people in the general population that also find subsistence living to be a good idea.

Most socialists understand that many goods can't be fully produced by any one individual, and that we get a benefit from working together as a group. Hell, most of Socialist ideology revolves around groups of workers owning the means of production, and a government/society that shares resources between people to keep everyone as reasonably comfortable as possible.

The notion that subsistence living is something that more socialists would support than the average person isn't exactly something I've seen to be true in my personal experience. In fact, I see a lot more of that on the very much anti-socialist right, what with all the homesteading and "rugged independent man" stereotypes you'll see thrown about over there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You're right, subsistence living in an individual level is impossible. There's a lot of Americans though, and they could do subsistence living if they worked together. Again, you and I aren't disagreeing. We just need to make sure to use the right words. Even if subsistence living isn't a commonly held thought, it's one with a more positive connotation than Isolationism. We should use words with negative connotations to describe negative bills

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

All right so you were just being pedantic.

Because my examples did not make it sound appealing lol

And I personally prefer to use neutral words, as folks have a lot of defense mechanisms toward words with negative connotations.

Meaning, they will just tune it out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 28 minutes ago

Yes, you're right. I'm being pedantic. I should have forewarned that, my bad.

And you're also right that people tend to tune out negative words. At first, sure. But, assuming you're American, I bet I could cause some cognitive dissonance in you if you I use the right ones. Isolationism isn't one of those yet, but in 30 years we need that word to sound the same as "Feudalism"