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		pmoriarty on May 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: All Is Orwell "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism as I understand it." -- George Orwell

mrkstu on May 25, 2021 [–]

The question remains unanswered, whether democratic socialism is, in the long-term, compatible with avoiding totalitarianism.

aplummer on May 25, 2021 | [–]

I mean what do you call long term. There are a lot of democratic socialist countries that don't even seem to be eeking towards totalitarianism. If anything, the EU is going the other way.

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