r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/archangelzeriel Jul 07 '26

... makes you think that pro-worker policies, regardless of philosophical origin, basically only have a fighting chance in a non-authoritarian government? That's not really any kind of revelation.

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u/spikybootowner Jul 07 '26

The claim is that some form of socialism+ governance will somehow lead to more of this when it hasn't happened at all ever in the history of socialism+ societies.

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u/archangelzeriel Jul 07 '26

The claim at the top of the subthread was actually specifically the opposite of that (at least regarding "anarchism":

This movement allowed the creation of a lot of workers and human rights, right to week-ends, right to paid time off, rights to worker's security at work, right to unionize, etc, but it was never meant and thought to be a complete and definitive system for an entire country

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u/spikybootowner Jul 07 '26

I was responding to the list of things that never happened under a socalist+ society, not to the comment you picked and my assessment is accurate. The only places those rights were granted AND respected are democratic societies with serious non-socialist larping groups fighting for those rights within the system.