Opinion | Why you might already be a socialist

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Opinion | Why you might already be a socialist
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Opinion | Nathan J. Robinson: 'Millennials are sometimes criticized for not knowing what socialism means...Our mindset is quite simply that the intolerable cannot be tolerated. And if you believe that, you just might be a socialist yourself' -NBCNewsTHINK

100 years ago, “while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”

That commitment may seem radical: who wants to be of the criminal element? But socialists think in terms of universals: we think everyone deserves healthcare and housing, not just the people who prove themselves morally worthy.when he said that inmates should be able to vote. But that was an admirably socialist thing to say: some rights should not have exceptions.

A lot of socialists’ day-to-day focus, then, is not on restructuring who owns the “means of production,” but on looking at the lives of people at the bottom and figuring out how to make them better. And we have this commitment because of solidarity: you want the same things for everyone else that you have for yourself.

The “even if you are not” part is what’s important for socialists. Anyone can pursue their own self-interest, and there are good arguments for, say,

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