Noah Smith
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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Like the word socialism isn't magic fairy dust that you can sprinkle on something to like make it go away.
Like that might have worked for like a few years in the 1980s, but that dog will not hunt now.
And so you're right.
It is totally semantic.
And that's, isn't that just socialism is, you know, like there's a shrinking and rapidly aging cohort of people for whom that sort of argument carries any weight at all.
But I'm glad that you, you, you,
You and I are on the exact same page about the idea that ownership and control of the means of production is a very different thing from redistribution, like social democracy, kind of the stuff like Sweden does.
If you look at the Scandinavian countries, those countries are less regulated than we are.
That's exactly right.
They're more capitalistic than we are on the production side.
And then on the redistribution side, they do a lot more.
And so is that more or less socialist than us?
It is a totally semantic argument, and I wish people would just stop saying, well, isn't that socialism?
And they soon will, because that's going away.
We need to come up with a new term.
You're talking about sloganeering, and I'm not necessarily a good sloganeer.
I want a bumper sticker, Noah.
I'm not good at bumper stickers, except for maybe silly ones.
But I think that I would just use the word redistribution to use a word to mean what it means.
Instead of tying it to a whole package of ideologies and stuff by calling it socialism, just call it redistribution, which is what it is.
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