Wednesday, August 27, 2025

i'm a socialist, but this isn't socialism. socialism is when the workers have control of the means of production. that's not what this is at all, it's the opposite of that, it's letting the government take control away from workers.

trump's economic system is not anything resembling socialism. what it is is an old tory economic system called mercantilism, associated with the british and canadian tories. 

canada used to have a fair amount of state owned industry, and it was mostly set up by the old tories. this was sold off in the 80s and 90s. i agree with the elder trudeau, who vociferously argue this was a tremendous mistake canada would live to regret.