• AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml
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        Some other literal socialist institutions that are far left:

        • libraries
        • parks
        • postal service
        • public universities
        • museums
        • hospitals
        • healthcare
        • the military

        This isn’t a far-left policy. This is FDR Democrats.

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          The postal service has been turned into a junk mail distribution system and there is nothing citizens can do to stop it. It’s infuriating.

          Oh and do not be fooled into paying $8 to $9 to companies claiming they can stop the junk mail, that’s a HUGE SCAM.

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          IMHO this makes more a case for socialism than it demonstrates that these things are not socialist.

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            2 months ago

            My issue is the classification of these particular items being far-left is a failure of what the far-left. Depending on what you consider socialism, this would be it or a conciliation to the ruling class.

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        It’s not far-left because it does not restrict a citizen’s own right to run a for-profit grocery store. She only wants the state to run its own grocery stores. I hope I’m wording this right.

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        Depending on one’s definition, as the store being owned by the government is still having a state apparatus which isn’t anarchism or communism