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Old 04-12-2015, 03:21 PM   #404 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Josef K View Post
The test is ridiculous in general. For whatever it's worth, based on my interactions with you, you seem like somewhere between a social democrat and a democratic socialist, in that you seem pretty committed to a solid welfare state and a highly regulated economy, but I don't know how you feel about direct worker control of industry, which is sort of (IMO anyway) the socialist litmus test.
I think it's kind of pointless to categorize a fourteen-year-old's political beliefs. Back then I thought I was a full-fledged commie, reading the Communist Manifesto and ****. I no longer do that.
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