Using Marxist as a denunciation feels like a shibboleth considering how often it comes out of the mouths of conservative politicians in the USA when talking about stuff that is not remotely related to it.

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smallmancontrov 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Yep, exactly. The USA is in the fortunate position of having a solid historical example of how to re-balance an economy that let inequality cook out of control: FDR. We didn't have a far-right Hitler or a far-left Stalin because we had a Roosevelt. We should aim for that again -- but at the moment I'm afraid our aim is drifting to the right, a right that calls its own policy position from 6 months prior "radical Marxist lunacy" and will certainly do the same to any compromise struck in that historically informed center.

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bigstrat2003 an hour ago | parent [-]

> We didn't have a far-right Hitler or a far-left Stalin because we had a Roosevelt. We should aim for that again...

I would much rather not have a repeat of the president who ran the federal government like he was a king, and the Constitution a bare semblance of a suggestion. FDR was one of the worst presidents in history, and many of the problems we face in our country today can be traced back to his immense executive branch power grab.

	▲	BobbyTables2 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Wonder how many read that first sentence thinking it was referring to the current times… (;->