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Comment author: pragmatist 09 January 2014 02:12:42PM 3 points [-]

Getting back to your wishes, I think we have a bunch of socialists here who on a regular basis post critiques of the status quo from the left side (e.g. didn't we have a debate about guaranteed basic income recently?).

I didn't witness this debate, so maybe you're right that the advocates for the guaranteed minimum income were in fact socialists. I'd like to note, though, that the idea of a guaranteed basic income has had some currency in libertarian circles as well, advocated by (among others) Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. So I wouldn't take support for this policy as very strong evidence of a socialist political orientation.

Comment author: Lumifer 09 January 2014 03:29:25PM 3 points [-]

Well, I mentioned socialists because a significant part of LW self-identifies as socialist (see Yvain's surveys). That, of course, is a fuzzy term with many possible meanings.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 January 2014 10:41:19AM 2 points [-]

But the survey didn't just say “Socialist”, it said “Socialist, for example Scandinavian countries: socially permissive, high taxes, major redistribution of wealth”.