Evolutionary Socialism

is the personal ideology of DuyQuangNguyenPham. He's economically center-left to  left-wing,  civically liberal,  culturally center-left,  patriotic,  interculturalist, and  internationalist. Evolutionary Socialism believes in worker cooperatives predominantly competing in a market economy, along with the scatterings of other forms of cooperatives. Some important industries will be nationalized or municipalized, and means of production under public ownership will be used to fund a UBI.

On social issues, Evolutionary Socialism supports abortion rights,  LGBT rights,  decriminalizing marijuana, a reformed criminal justice system, etc. However, he understands that these social changes couldn't be immediately implemented, especially in third-world countries. Investments in education are needed before enacting them.

On civic issues, he can be best described as a liberal. Although the state needs to be able to protect its citizens from harm and ensure robust social services, the people, for the most part, should be able to enjoy  civil liberties to express themselves.

Macroeconomic thought
Evolutionary Socialism believes that economic growth is important, which provides a tax base for social safety nets to cut poverty rates. Unlike capitalists, however, he doesn't think that private ownership is necessary for that to happen, just the presence of competitive markets is enough.

Broadly, he describes himself as a Keynesian. Many times, nominal rigidity means that prices and wages are sticky, resulting in reduced output. That means regulating the boom-bust cycle is paramount, which corresponds to increasing the money supply during recessions and decreasing it during expansions. That can be accomplished by fiscal policies and/or monetary policies.

The deficits wouldn't be left unpaid. Evolutionary Socialism wants to raise taxation or decrease spending to balance budgets later on. That way, debts would remain at sustainable levels, while social welfare for the citizens is maintained. Dampening booms also have the added effect of preventing high inflation caused by the excessive stimulus.

He wants to create a central bank that is managed independently of the government. It would have a dual mandate of maximizing employment and targeting inflation by adjusting interest rates. During persistent deflationary periods, the monetary authority will resort to quantitative easing, especially when there's a liquidity trap.

He advocates for full employment, which helps the economy operate at the highest capacity. That doesn't mean unemployment goes all the way to zero, however, as price stability is also important. An ideal unemployment rate to him would hover at NAIRU.

All of these prescriptions would place him the closest to New Keynesianism.

Taxations
Evolutionary Socialism generally endorses a high amount of taxation to fund a comprehensive welfare state and generous public services for everyone. Here's the list of taxes that he would support: He strongly supports equality of opportunity and low inequality of outcome. And it is the combination of both broad-based taxation and strong social spending that achieves them. Keeping inequality low can reduce crime rates, improve happiness or even increase economic growth.
 * Income tax (the top marginal income tax would be 70%)
 * Capital gains tax (eliminating step-up in basis is necessary)
 * Payroll tax
 * Corporate tax (should be low)
 * The minimum corporate tax (can only be enforced internationally)
 * Net worth tax (only applied to people with a vast amount of wealth)
 * Value-added tax (very difficult to evade and also raises much revenue)
 * Inheritance tax (should be high)
 * [[File:Georgist.png]] Land value tax (should be high also)
 * Carbon tax (progressively increasing)

[[File:PCB-Regulationism.png]] Regulations [[File:DvCoordination.png]]
“To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment… would result in the demolition of society.” ~ Karl Polanyi Evolutionary Socialism is vehemently against  self-regulating markets. He believes that an economy that is only governed by supply and demand and little else is inhumane at its very core. Indeed, excessive deregulation has led to the rise of precarious work, which offers less income and job security than regular employment. A good government, therefore, should not let the market be free from state interventions but rather subordinate it to a democratic society. He feels that at-will employment is negative overall. It gives undue power to employers since employees could be fired for almost any reason. Workers with unorthodox political views, sexual orientation, or religion could be fired discriminatorily under this system. He wishes to mandate that firms must have a just cause (like poor performance or economic redundancy) when terminating someone. You know which type of enterprise is not so willing to shred the labor force by design? Worker cooperatives. Just like how workers should be able to quit jobs, they also should be able to find new and better jobs if they so choose. Occupational licensing needs to be relaxed to improve employment opportunities. In the real world, the economy doesn't follow the assumptions of a perfectly competitive market. There are indeed imperfections found in the labor market, where businesses have certain wage-setting power because there are simply not enough employers lying around, a phenomenon called oligopsony. And the employees also have to incur significant costs while switching jobs. This is job search friction. One way to fight these structural forces is to raise the minimum wage to around 60% of the local median wages and tie it to inflation. A national government would only set the floor. Smaller states are free to set higher minimum wages compared to local median ones if they so choose. This will provide a laboratory to see if even greater minimum wages are positive. He supports the creation of an economic constitution, similar to the one implemented in  West Germany. The purpose of the constitution is to outlaw anti-competitive practices, like predatory pricing or cartelization. If non-state monopolies or even oligopolies were to emerge, they would be broken up into multiple, smaller companies. This is not to say that Evolutionary Socialism disavows big businesses altogether. Firms should still gain a larger market share as a result of their superior products sold at lower prices. He is just worried about them getting so big that they start to have price-setting power, which hurt the consumers or have enough political influence, which can subvert the political democracy. When banking fails, it brings the whole economy down with it, necessitating costly bailouts by the public. He thinks that the banking sector should be subjected to strict regulatory oversight to reduce the volatility of capital markets. We really don't want the repeat of the Great Recession. He also endorses the creation of a central bank to regulate the money supply, once again to mitigate boom-and-bust cycles. However, this particular bank wouldn't be regulated by the central government, but rather be left up to economic experts. One more exception to his pro-social regulations stance has to be his view on zoning. He believes that single-family zoning should really be done away with, to allow more housing developments and thus reduce home prices. If you think about it, this type of deregulation can actually empower the tenants, as they are less coerced to use the houses rent out by the landlords. The liberalization of land use regulations could then be coupled with a high LVT, which promotes better use of land.
 * -|Against market fundamentalism=
 * -|Hiring & firing=
 * -|Minimum wages=
 * -|Anti-trust laws=
 * -|Banking=
 * -|Housing=

[[File:Synd.png]] Trade unions
In the private sector, Evolutionary Socialism is very pro-union. He thinks that the presence of a strong labor movement explains why left-of-center parties have been so dominant in the  Nordic countries. By combatting oligopsonies and wage theft, it improves the bargaining power of workers dramatically. If taken far enough, these entities can even democratize the economy, leading the way to a post-capitalist society. However, he's more skeptical of public unions. Police unions, at least in America, have blocked reforms to hold the police more accountable. That doesn't mean that he wants to break up those unions altogether. The police officers should still have good working conditions and compensation, but their interests should be balanced with the need of the whole society. He believes that an increase in union membership is absolutely vital to revitalize a progressive movement. Since trade unions generally fight for the rights of all workers, he doesn't think that the right-to-work laws, where non-unionized workers can choose not to pay dues to unions, make sense, and he wishes to see them repealed. Furthermore, he believes that mandatory arbitration should be fought hard. It's quite often presented to employees as a condition for their employment, and so the private employers will have a lot of sway, a lot of power against them. Couple that with the creation of funds to meet the basic needs of workers going on strikes, and that should tilt the balance of power toward the organized working class. Lastly, the unemployment insurance funds can be managed by the trade unions themselves, partly subsidized by the state. This arrangement, otherwise known as the Ghent System, can further incentivize the workers to unionize since that's how they can stay afloat while moving to a better job. For a long time, he has been a fan of the Rehn-Meidner Model. It has done a good job modernizing the Swedish economy by fulfilling four principles: The trade union representatives would negotiate higher wages for the least productive firms and lower wages for the most productive ones. This would result in greater income equality within each sector, satisfying the 1st principle. The wage restraint prevents wage-price spirals, satisfying the 2nd principle. The aforementioned [https://nordics.info/show/artikel/solidaristic-wage-policy/#:~:text=Solidaristic%20wage%20policy%20refers%20to,wages%20on%20a%20national%20basis. solidaristic wage policy] would force unprofitable businesses to improve their productive capacity, or risk getting bankrupt, satisfying the 3rd principle. Also, active labor market policies to help redundant workers join the better firms and greater coordination of wage bargaining should satisfy the 4th principle. It's important to note that the tripartite process doesn't have to legitimize the role of the private owners. His ideal workplace has the managers be elected by the labor-friendly board of directors, since the workers collectively have majority control and ownership rights (shown on the right.) To get to that point, however, an expansion of the social economy is needed, with a revised version of the employee funds and strong state support. In the meantime, with the trade unions emboldened, the position of the working class is greatly strengthened, and the struggle for true economic democracy begins.
 * -|Introduction=
 * -|How to increase unionization?=
 * -|Institutionalisation=
 * 1) [[File:Equality.png]] Equal pay for equal work
 * 2) [[File:EconInflate.png]] Low inflation
 * 3) High growth
 * 4) Full employment

[[File:Univhealth.png]] Healthcare system
Initially, Evolutionary Socialism wants to institute a public option competing with other private health insurances to drive down costs. A health insurance mandate also has to be implemented to prevent a scenario where healthy individuals drop out of the healthcare plan, shrinking the market over time. Additionally, the government can negotiate for lower drug prices, something that has already been done in Germany. As citizens are getting more satisfied with the government-run plan, he finds it apt to expand the public health insurance over time, eventually leading into a single-payer system, not unlike the National Health Service or the  Canadian Medicare. The expanded public plan will also include dental, hearing, vision, mental, and long-term care. This model can help reduce administrative costs, leading to further cost savings. Universal healthcare is a moral imperative in any nation. It's very unjust for children to be sick without being responsible for it. Healthy citizens are also more productive workers, which benefits us all. However, there will be campaigns advising people not to abuse this system for the common good. Excise taxation on tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages is also needed to reduce diseases and promote good health.
 * -|My ideal model=

Education
In tertiary education, schools will be free at the point of service, but participating students must pay a graduate tax on their salaries after they graduate, which will go back to the funding for those schools. This proposal, otherwise known as the universal income-based repayment, can reduce the regressivity of free colleges and trade schools and ensure that the students have ample opportunities to participate in the economy.

The schools are free at the point of service and compulsory for children between the age of six and eighteen. Banning political propaganda is obligatory to ensure an informed populace.

Housing
For housing, Evolutionary Socialism wants to follow the model in Finland. He will increase the supply of affordable rental housing to provide to the homeless. Solving any personal issues is much easier with a roof over your head.

[[File:Welf.png]] Welfare state universalism [[File:Socdem.png]]
An optimal welfare state would place less emphasis on directly redistributing wealth from rich to poor people and more on transferring money from workers to non-workers. Non-workers are the people outside of the labor market, who can be categorized into the unemployed, children, the disabled, the elderly, caregivers, and students. It makes sense to provide all of these people with a source of income. 
 * -|Cash transfers=

1. Unemployment benefits
Job-seeking people will have either a time-unlimited basic payment or a four-year social insurance with a wage replacement rate of 80%. Labor productivity will [https://www.nber.org/papers/w7352#:~:text=This%20paper%20argues%20that%20unemployment,firms%20to%20create%20those%20jobs.&text=Our%20model%20economy%20captures%20the,high%20school%20graduates%20quite%20well. increase] since workers can now seek out higher-productivity jobs more easily.

2. Child allowance
Any parent can claim a monthly benefit to bring up their youth better, as long as they live with their child for at least a month each quarter. The generosity of the payment will depend on the number of children the family has.

3. Disability benefits
People with disabilities that restrict their ability to work will receive a basic benefit, which they can use for self-directed support.

4. [[File:Gero.png]] Old-age pension
Above age 65, all elderly people will be eligible for either the basic benefit or social insurance, whichever is higher. The latter would be paid for by payroll taxation on their previous earnings, while the former would just be funded by general taxation. Social Security can prevent a situation where an old person runs out of savings just for living for too long.

5. Home childcare allowance
For parents who don't want to send their kids to free public childcare centers, they can instead opt to care for their young children at home and get paid for it. It's analogous to the state employing these people.

6. Student grants
Adults attending tertiary education will have a cash grant from the state, up to the full amount when they live independently. This payment could help them deal with living expenses while studying on their own such as housing or food.  All of these programs will not be subjected to drug tests, asset tests, or income tests. Only the contributory system will require previous work while a non-contributory one will not. That way, a baseline of needs is maintained for all citizens, but people are still incentivized to work to gain more income. It's an indictment on us for even allowing poverty to exist, as it's not about the lack of character, but rather a lack of opportunity.
 * -|ALMPs=

[[File:PCB-Dsa.png]] The movement to socialism [[File:Demsocstar.png]]
Under an unaccountable and authoritarian government, he wants to pursue a non-violent revolution first. But if the power that be still cracked down on the protests and refused to step down, then the violent revolution would be used. Because of this, he tentatively supports these revolutions: However, an upheaval usually brings lots of bloodshed. And at what cost? This is why Evolutionary Socialism prefers an accretionist route to socialism, especially under  liberal-democratic governments. He really likes the concept of "provisional utopia" by Ernst Wigforss (an early social democrat.) The idea is that a flexible utopian goal would be set for incremental policies to strive toward. As a market socialist, Evolutionary Socialism would want to expand the social economy to be dominant, which consists of mostly worker coops but also consumer coops, and multi-stakeholder coops. Here are some policies to facilitate the transformation.
 * -|Reform or Revolution?=
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] American Revolution
 * [[File:Hochi.png]] August Revolution
 * [[File:Castro.png]] Cuban Revolution (against [[File:Nazcapf.png]] Batista's military dictatorship)
 * [[File:Cball-Hungary.png]] Hungarian Uprising (against [[File:Stalin.png]] Stalinist hardliners)
 * [[File:Cball-Portugal.png]] Carnation Revolution
 * [[File:Cball-Czechia.png]] Velvet Revolution
 * -|Co-ops=

Creation of new cooperatives

 * Fund more empirical research into the effects of coops.
 * Formalize new laws for the various types of coops.
 * Establish publicly-funded worker ownership centers, which should increase the awareness of coops, thus increasing the supply of specialized coop labor.
 * Cut capital gains tax for owners who have sold their enterprise to the workers.
 * The priority to buy a company when it's being dissolved, sold, or publicly listed lies in the hands of the workers, a policy called the right of first refusal.
 * The redundant employees can collectively use up to 3 years of their future unemployment benefits to make a worker buy-out. Those funds will be matched three times over by a new state investment fund. This law has been implemented in [[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Italy, called the Marcora Law.

Expansion of existing cooperatives

 * Lower the corporate tax rates for coops.
 * Provide interest-free loans to coops, preferably with credit unions.
 * Allocate public procurement contracts to coops.
 * Mandate that coops pay 3% of their profits to any coop development fund managed by a coop federation that they like (if there is one.)
 * Require that coops join any federation of coops they like to access technical assistance (if there is one.)
 * Set up independently-managed banks owned by municipalities, regional states, and the national state. They would issue grants to coops, which would increase the capital assets tax burden on those firms. Those revenues raised from that would go back to that network of socially-owned banks.

Preservation of cooperatives

 * All profits in indivisible reserves are tax exempt.
 * Apply just cause standard to workers that haven't got an ownership stake in coops.
 * Encourage coop firms to train members about democratic governance and implement internal capital accounts to combat degeneration into [[File:DvProperty.png]] private firms.
 * -|What would a social economy look like?=

Consumer cooperatives
Consumer ownership can most likely be an alternative to state ownership in certain sectors, such as banking, housing, groceries, utilities, media, or health insurance. It will mitigate the harmful effects of monopolies, besides the anti-trust laws.
 * We can have mutual savings banks and credit unions in banking.
 * Housing coops give tenants extra control over the places where they live.
 * We can have food co-ops and utility co-ops to deliver necessities at an affordable price.
 * Media coops will report news based on the interests of the community. They can also operate much more independently than traditional media companies.
 * And finally, supplemental access to healthcare can be fulfilled by health insurance coops.

Multi-stakeholder cooperatives
Multi-stakeholder ownership is suitable in care work and the digital economy.
 * Caregivers and care receivers will both have a say in the delivery of services within social coops, which have been successful in [[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Italy.
 * Platform coops will do well to decentralize ownership rights to a broad group of users, and respect their privacy online.

Worker cooperatives
Ideally, worker ownership should have a significant or straight up dominant market share in every sector of the economy. Besides direct firm-level worker ownership, you can imagine either an Employee Ownership Trust or sectoral trade unions holding shares on behalf of employees. He believes that an expansion of worker coops is important due to three reasons. Firstly, employee ownership can modestly improve productivity, since worker-owners are more interested in the success of their firms. Secondly, the survival rates of these worker coops are higher than those of the conventional firms. And finally, and this is an important one, worker ownership enhances the well-being of these people. In other words, it reduces alienation.

Capital investment
The coops can raise additional capital in the following ways: membership shares, non-voting shares, churches, community development corporations, crowdfunding, bonds, credit unions, public banks, wage-earner funds, and social wealth funds (more on the last two later.)

The purpose of cooperatives
Anywho, the point is to radically reduce the influence of a small wealthy group and implement robust economic democracy to complement our political democracy.
 * -|Collectively-owned investment funds=

Wage-earner funds
When union membership becomes sufficiently high, there should be worker representation on corporate boards and reduced wage dispersion in each sector. Combine wage restraint at the biggest firms, increasing worker influence with tight labor markets, and workers should agitate for a share of the excess profits, just like they did historically in the 1970s Sweden.

To satisfy the demands of the workers, publicly-listed companies should be required to issue new shares equal to, say, 1% of their total market cap to the employee funds annually. This process can continue until around 20% of their shares are owned by the workers at the industry-wide level. Sectoral unions can use their newfound capital along with their union dues to either help workers buy out the smaller firms or continue to cooperatize the large businesses. The national government can help these labor unions even further by regulating financial flows.

Funneling wage demands into genuine control of the means of production can prevent unsustainable wage increases that caused stagflation many decades ago. Additionally, this fund represents further progress from social corporatism into a  socialist economy.

Social wealth funds
Evolutionary Socialism believes that the creation of a sovereign wealth fund will be a very good idea. It's a state-owned investment fund that has a diversified portfolio, such as natural resources, listed stocks, private equity, bonds, and real estate.

There are some ways to help the mutual fund accumulate assets for the benefit of all. The first is to use the revenues from taxes on assets and carbon. Secondly, the government can issue low-interest bonds. And finally, it's possible for a central bank to buy financial assets to prop up the economy. Those assets can then be transferred to the SWF.

When the main fund got too large, he'd advise breaking it up into smaller competing funds to avoid centralization of power. Within each of the SWF, merit pay can be used to reward returns maximization for the public.

Those mutual funds can invest in places where private investments are low, thus boosting growth. The multitude of social wealth funds can help stabilize the financial markets while making sure that the public reap the benefits. Lastly, publicly-owned assets can be used for social welfare purposes, even having a social dividend for everyone when the government accumulates enough of them.

[[File:Gay.png]] LGBTA rights [[File:PCB-Trans.png]]
He doesn't believe that it's right to mistreat a person just because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. That is why any discrimination against lesbian,  gay,  bisexual,  transgender, and  asexual individuals would be made illegal under his system. Neopronouns and xenogenders won't be legally recognized, however. He would also allow pride parades, but on the condition that they have no nudity. He would go even further and argue that marriage should be available to every adult couple in society, a concept named marriage equality. It has been shown to help improve the lives of same-sex couples. However, some people might argue marriage was for procreation only. He would respond that homosexual and bisexual couples should be able to have offspring with their DNA thanks to advances in technology, and there are signs that this should eventually be a reality. For a long time, Evolutionary Socialism has thought of gender dysphoria as the result of the mismatch between gender identity and sex at birth. For this reason, he has always been sympathetic toward transgender people and thus wants to expand access to gender-affirming healthcare, like puberty blockers below age 16, hormone replacement therapy above age 16, and sex reassignment surgery above age 18. Note that these services will be more accessible to transgender people with gender dysphoria than to transgender people without, due to his transmedicalism. Last but not least, he believes that transgender people should be able to participate in sports, especially mixed-sex sports. States' attempts to ban trans women from participating might be well-meaning (assuming that they do care about the integrity of womens' sports) but he doesn't think that that is the solution. He would require that these aspiring transgender sportspeople transition and then measure their hormone levels to be appropriate before allowing them to compete. This strikes the balance between the inclusivity of legitimate transgender people in sports and meaningful competition.
 * -|LGBA rights=
 * -|Trans rights=

[[File:Fem.png]] Feminism [[File:Mat.png]]
Evolutionary Socialism is an ardent feminist. That means he advocates expanding women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.

Firstly, he believes that women should be completely equal to men before the law. Any violence and prejudice against women would be outlawed, and women would enjoy the same political rights as men.

Secondly, he would want women to be freer from the constraints of traditional gender roles. That meant additional opportunities for them to be employed, which is why he favors free childcare, which has been shown to increase maternal labor force participation rates.

Thirdly, Evolutionary Socialism endorses the expansion of paid family and annual leave to every employee. If affordable childcare gives women more freedom to seek out work, then maternity leave allows them to care for their children when they want to. Keep-in-touch programs will be readily available, where leave-takers could still stay in contact with their workplace.

Lastly, he favors reproductive rights for women in general. He would support the legalization of first- and second-term abortions, while third-term abortions would be more regulated, except in cases where women are at risk, rape, incest, and fetal nonviability.

Despite this, being pro-choice isn't the same as pro-abortion, as he wants to reduce abortion incidence as well. Comprehensive sex education and affordable birth control are necessary for this to happen. In other words, he operates by the mantra "safe, legal, and rare" when it comes to abortion.

[[File:Policeism.png]] Criminal justice system [[File:Policeman.png]]
Private and for-profit prisons would want to keep as many prisoners with as little costs as they can to maximize profits. And this leads to [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00036846.2020.1736501?journalCode=raec20#:~:text=2008.,compared%20to%20public%20prison%20inmates. higher] recidivism rates. Therefore, many of the detention centers should be publicly or municipally owned. As a constructivist, Evolutionary Socialism believes that socio-economic factors play a pretty significant role in determining the presence of crime. For example, poverty has been shown to correlate with violent crimes. Because of this, he advocates emphasizing rehabilitative policies as opposed to punitive ones. That can manifest as the abolition of the death penalty. There's no reason it would still be around in the Evolutionary Socialist world because the death penalty creates a risk of wrongful executions and doesn't really deliver justice to the families of the victims. Ideally, he wants to phase out the life without parole sentences as well. They are basically very delayed death penalties since the prisoners with those sentences will eventually die behind bars anyway. One way to achieve this is to restore parole eligibility to convicted murderers after they have served a minimum of a decade. This should encourage them to participate in educational and vocational programs to prepare for their eventual reintegration into society. On a side note, he wishes to end mandatory minimums. Firstly, they ignore the unique circumstances that each offender has been in to commit the crime. And secondly, that type of sentencing contributes to mass incarceration found in the United States. Might as well do away with it entirely. To Evolutionary Socialism, the reallocation of the funds from the police to social workers should be small in scope and can't be done universally. Most of the revenue going to social services needs to be from the increase of taxes. Anyways, he understands if someone rejects the "defunding the police" slogan because to be fair, it's pretty bad. More funding for social workers should enable the creation of a co-responder police model, which consists of mental health experts, other social service providers alongside police to 911 calls that require specific expertise. Further reduction of the chance of escalation of violent force is possible with mental health training programs for police officers. These measures would lead to the police crisis intervention team, which he wholeheartedly supports. He thinks the armored vehicles, rocket launchers, or grenades that the current police organizations carry can increase police brutality and hurt community trust. That's why he wants to demilitarize the police. And then there's also the problem with independent arbitration for the unionized police. This process has caused discipline instituted by police departments to decrease by a half, even when the arbitrators agreed with the initial findings. Where's the accountability? There are two ways to reform arbitration. The first is to prevent arbitrators from conducting investigations on their own, so they can only decrease discipline if there's a huge error in the chief's process. The second is to allow arbitrators to be appointed by a democratically elected official so that they are accountable to the public. What's more, he endorses the creation of a national database to prevent fired officers from being rehired in other cities. However, many of the reforms above will be hard to implement due to the strong influence of police unions. Research shows that collective bargaining rights for police can exacerbate police violence and serve as a barrier to officer accountability. So what can we do? Limiting what work rules can be negotiated for police officers would be a good start. He is against the police abolition movement because he believes law enforcement can be the public servants they're meant to be, especially with the policy prescriptions outlined above.
 * -|Penitentiary=
 * -|Police forces=

[[File:NarcLib.png]] Drugs & Euthanasia
He thinks that soft drugs need to be decriminalized, while hard drugs should remain illegal. Hard drugs may give temporary highs for the consumers, but their downsides outweigh any upsides (see the opioid crisis.) While there is no such thing as a cannabis crisis, overusing marijuana can increase the risk of traffic accidents.

On Euthanasia, he unquestionably supports the procedure. The government has no right to force a sick person to continue living if he/she doesn't want to.

[[File:Envi.png]] Environmentalism [[File:Glib.png]]
Evolutionary Socialism believes that global warming is man-made, and that's a big problem. There's a reason why carbon emissions have been rapidly [https://www.statista.com/statistics/264699/worldwide-co2-emissions/#:~:text=Carbon%20dioxide%20(CO2)%20emissions%20began,emissions%20to%20plummet%20five%20percent. increasing] ever since the Industrial Revolution. However, he doesn't think that we should make environmental progress by curtailing economic growth like many de-growthers would say, as it would hurt the workers' wages and overall living standards. Instead, newer technologies will be key to defeating the crisis. Some policies that could help enable this are public investments in renewables and nuclear energy, phasing out subsidies to fossil fuel, and a carbon tax. A carbon tax could start at $10/ton of CO2 and gradually increase annually, incentivizing firms to be less carbon-intensive. Additionally, he wants to extend national protection to forests to combat deforestation, seeing they have a crucial role in carbon sequestration. Have you seen a dead bird with plastics inside its body? Or the insane smog in Beijing? It's a tragedy that pollution is allowed to continue unchecked, with adverse effects on us and the bigger ecosystem. Because of this, drastic measures need to be taken to fight it, such as: With these implemented, hopefully, we are able to preserve the world for future generations to see. Really, all of those beautiful species don't deserve to die off due to our actions.
 * -|Against global warming=
 * -|Against pollution=
 * Encourage recycling
 * Promote biodegradable plastic products
 * Make littering punishable with a fine
 * Fine any company that dumps waste into the ocean
 * Build green and blue infrastructure
 * Place sanctions on ecologically destructive countries

[[File:Atheism.png]] Religious matters [[File:Religious.png]]
On one hand, he strictly opposes a theocratic government. Religious laws can stifle progress, such as denying reproductive care for women. The merge of church and the state is likely to result in the centralization of powers when leaders justify their legislation in the name of gods. On the other hand, he also opposes strict state atheism. The concept usually translates to state worship, and the government has a high chance of persecuting minor religious groups to make religion a personal matter.

Evolutionary Socialism ends up supporting secularism as a middle ground between both. He will ensure the separation between the church and the state for modernization, but freedom of religion is upheld.

[[File:PCB-Nationalism.png]] International relations [[File:Globalism.png]]
He generally has a non-interventionist view on foreign policy. He has seen the destruction of human life caused by conflicts and colonial rules. Because of this, he believes that foreign interventions should seldom be pursued unless they can be shown to have drastically positive effects. The situations where that might be the case are invasions or genocide on a massive scale. Besides that, he prefers peaceful diplomacy and foreign aid.

Evolutionary Socialism is pretty pro-immigration, to say the least. He sympathizes with the individuals who want to find better living conditions for themselves. This motivates him to ease legal immigration across the board and provide path to citizenship to illegal immigrants (the latter will take longer.) However, new immigrants must go through a waiting period before they can access the welfare state, and they're expected to learn our history and values.

He's quite in favor of liberalized trade between nations, seeing that reduces costs of goods in the Global North, while helping the Global South industrialize and diversify their economies. That doesn't mean no tariffs whatsoever, for he still wants carbon tariffs to internalize the costs of pollution. There should also be adequate worker standards, where third-world workers can negotiate as much compensation and benefits as their labor productivity allows. For laid-off domestic workers, he will create generous retraining programs to help them adjust to new jobs quickly.

Despite this, Evolutionary Socialism is quite critical of liberalized financial flows. Ever since the post-war consensus, cross-border financial flows have weakened the ability of national governments to engage in redistribution of resources, leading to the race to the bottom. He will tax capital flows and organize with other countries a new international system, mimicking the New International Economic Order.

Evolutionary Socialism is a civic nationalist, meaning that he defines nationhood as something based on common values and citizenship. He doesn't think that we should discriminate against immigrants because of their different ethnicities, races, or even cultures. An unusual characteristic of his patriotism is his liking both the  United States and  Vietnam at the same time. Representative democracy is a great model to follow, but Evolutionary Socialism also enjoys Vietnam's dedication to socialist ideals.

Unlike Multiculturalists, he seeks to fight the tendency of cultures to self-segregate into parallel societies. Even though he supports the existence of multiple cultures, there needs to be cross-cultural communication and cultural fusion, and the state needs to promote common ground between them. So there's still a collective identity among diverse cultures. Evolutionary Socialism supports moderate nationalism that is not exclusionary nor considering itself to be superior to other nations. This can challenge the rise of right-wing populist parties and prevent them from getting into power, like what the  social democrats did in  Sweden.

He supports regional unions and the United Nations in its current form since they helped solve global problems like climate change and pollution. However, any further developments must be unanimous among their members. One reason is that without the agreement of some countries, these organizations will impede their national sovereignty.

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To him, democracy isn't necessarily the best political system but rather the least bad system devised by humans. Even if it got corrupted, it would still be better than a despotic government that consistently enacts terrible policies. Democracies are much less likely to go to war, and they don't kill their citizens as much.

Evolutionary Socialism supports a representative democracy with direct democratic elements. A referendum will pop up before the enactment of a particularly controversial policy, like cybersecurity laws. He prefers the parliamentary system to a  presidential one because the prime minister is much more in sync with the legislative branch than a president. Depending on the population, each state will have a certain number of seats. Every political party will have a chance to gain ground with proportional representation instead of first-past-the-post. He dislikes plurality voting precisely because it tends to punish compromise and reward partisanship. Anyways, all of those seats will form a parliament. Some parties that generally agreed on core issues can form a coalition, getting a high enough majority to govern.

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In his view, Evolutionary Socialism thinks that the mainstream media is usually not trustworthy for the people. He supports the Fairness Doctrine to present opposing views fairly, preventing the political polarization found in the US. Media cooperative is a fascinating model and can operate more independently due to the minimization of the agency dilemma. He wishes to incentivize creating more of them.

Electoral process
Evolutionary Socialism feels that corporations have too much power over the political process. He wants to restrict big money by setting an upper limit on the expenditures given to political campaigns. Additionally, he plans to create an independent electoral commission to draw boundaries and monitor elections properly.

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Evolutionary Socialism supports free speech, but he's not a free speech absolutist. According to the Paradox of Tolerance, if a society is tolerant without limit, eventually, the intolerant will destroy any semblance of tolerance. He doesn't support speech if it's defamation or incitement. If you try to damage someone's reputation for no good reason or encourage a person to hurt any group of people, you will be fined accordingly. Besides that, dissent is allowed as a way to spot any shortcomings to improve the system, as he is pluralist.

Additionally, he fiercely defends peaceful protests (freedom of assembly.) As John F. Kennedy puts it, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." There should always be an avenue for the public to reform the government to become better. He even supports riots if they're against the public institutions.

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However, he thinks the riots against any other kind of property are mostly unjustified. Destruction of businesses can ruin the lives of many people who worked hard to build them.

He supports gun control because guns aren't often used for defense as most people think. Guns are only allowed for anyone from 18 years old or above, and universal background checks are employed. Less gun prevalence can reduce instances of violent crimes, like school shootings, for example.

With the release of vaccines, Evolutionary Socialism wouldn't necessarily make vaccines mandatory for everyone, but he will make it a requirement to travel and to participate in sports events. Tying vaccines to positive events will incentivize people to take them.

This ideology has a very controversial take on privacy. He allows placing surveillance cameras in public places to combat unlawful activities. A potential thief can be discouraged to steal when he sees the camera watching him in a store. But since this can be a violation of the right to privacy, he will use referendums for every new camera system. Because even if you have nothing to hide, you still have something to fear.

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New Keynesianism

We should utilize fiscal and monetary policies to stabilize the business cycles. Although, you sometimes leaned toward the latter when you rejected any fiscal stimulus. However, you still achieved extraordinary macroeconomic stability in many developed countries (also known as the Great Moderation) by strategic injection of liquidity to maintain aggregate demand. I like how you came up with micro-foundations to respond to the critiques from New Classicals, like menu costs and efficiency wages. Also, good job focusing on the role of demand during the Keynesian resurgence! Your theory remains a comprehensive tool to study the various types of shock that affect the economy and the best ways to deal with them.

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Neo-Keynesianism

We need to use fiscal and monetary policies to alleviate downturns, although you leaned toward the former. During the Golden Age, besides inflation, you outperformed the Washington Consensus in terms of global growth and unemployment. Capital flow was limited, so financial crises were very infrequent around the world. However, the assumption that the trade-off between unemployment and inflation remains true was your biggest flaw, leading to your demise. However, you're still pretty good for your time.

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I'm sympathetic to your effort to fight against the fear of inflation due to deficit spending. The idea of "political business cycles" - where the fluctuation of economic policies is caused by the shifting power of the political actors (the labor movement or private capital) is also quite interesting. Additionally, your proponent's advocacy during the Keynesian resurgence for an updated version of the Keynes Plan where each nation would be incentivized to achieve full employment and progressively higher wages was very welcome. On the flip side, you can't just dismiss debt as being unimportant. The reason is that debt can only go so high before a country reaches insolvency, so fiscal responsibility is needed. Job guarantee can be used in recessions, but not in economic booms, as that would overheat the economy, which causes inflation to skyrocket. And finally, you are way too reliant on fiscal policies to influence aggregate demand, even though the monetary policies can also do the same job. Take the 1987 stock market crash. Many economists believed that the ensuing recession would be just as bad as the Great Depression, but the actual effects were short-lived because the central banks intervened on time to maintain just enough demand to keep economies going. So, quite mixed.

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Yori Model (100%)

Market socialism with robust welfare programs is an ideal economic system for both of us. I approve of your reformist stance, and your cultural views are very good. Semi-direct democracy is a much-needed compromise between representative and direct democracy! Civic nationalism? The most based nationalism! I'm happy that you embrace economic interventionism to protect the consumers and additional taxation to make society more equitable. I think you just need to be more open about fair trade.

Overall, there's absolutely no significant divergence between our views. Truly the best self-insert in this wiki hands down.

Admiralism (87%)

It's good that you endorse regulations to prevent our socialist market economy from going haywire. Your overall economics is essentially social-democratic policies within the framework of a socialist market economy, which is right on. Your world free of economic exploitation and unjustified military interventions is a really great ideal. You don't go too crazy with gun ownership since you understood the negative aspects of absolute gun rights, so that's pretty cool. You're somewhat too big on traditionalism, but your views on integration, social rights, the national identity, and the criminal justice system are more than enough to make up for that. I don't think you can preserve civil liberties well under a single-party state, so your proposal for a reformist semi-direct democracy would be a lot better. My only major objections would be your endorsement of the death penalty, which can hurt the families of the victims and prevent healing, and your economic self-sufficiency, which is very difficult to achieve.

All things considered, you're a comrade to me.

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Scarletism (???%)

You can be a bit too statist at times, but you're still pro-democracy, so you're good on that front. I disagree with some of your social policies, though. Like, I don't approve of your support of the death penalty along with punitive justice. I also think that you can support a movement for civil rights while also being critical of its other aspects. I have heard about the riots. However, those aren't made by the BLM protesters, but the agent provocateurs. Nonetheless, your concern about people in the BLM movement wanting to abolish the police remains legitimate as even I am opposed to that. What is unchanged about BLM is the call for the end of police brutality, which I think we can both agree on. Besides that, secularism is very cool, and defensive democracy is an interesting concept, so long as you only dissolve political parties as a last resort. Support for science is great, and so is the restriction of hard drugs. Your proposals to reduce carbon footprint are very comprehensive! And what's more, your economic legislation is close to mine! I like your welfare, but I believe it can be more universalist because the employment-impeding policies are present in  Christian democracy only, not in  social democracy. On the other hand, I am in favor of the Keynesian economics that underpins your social democracy. I don't think we should nationlize every big business, although I agree that some strategic industries are too important to be left up to the market. The fact that you incentivize more economic democracy is wonderful, your self-insert is pretty well-thought-out.

(78.6%)

You know, I personally like the fact that you're willing to cooperate with other similar nations for mutual interests, whether it's free trade or diplomacy. However, your disregard of national identity will be pretty bad. Patriotism can motivate the population and is needed for social cohesion. Your desire for civil liberties and a responsible government is very admirable, although I'm not sure if free speech absolutism is the way. With that said, your economic policies are quite awesome. Whether we are a capitalist or socialist, strong unions, robust welfare, sensible state interventions, and greater workplace representation are all necessary for a thriving economy!

I consider you an ally despite your moderation. Clean page and rest in peace, my friend...

(75%)

It's pretty nice that you put water and electricity under the control of society instead of the private individuals. These industries have pretty inelastic demand. Additional public housing and a robust welfare state to provide a baseline of needs are great, and I'm happy that you pursue both of them. Pretty progressive economics so far, but there are two small problems. The first is no economic democracy; you would want workers to have a say in how firms are run. And the second is that you don't want tax rates to be too progressive. Otherwise, you would be relying on the ultra-rich to fund social services, when you want to depend on tax revenues from the whole community. But the two negatives are quickly dwarfed by the anti-trust laws and the reduction of tariffs, so that's something.

Anyway, I turned my attention to your other policies and I quite liked what I saw. The stance against discrimination based on ethnicity, race, gender, and religion is obviously needed, so I'm not going too deep into that. I still have reservations about your support of the death penalty and hate speech laws. However, I think the restrictions on adultery, legalized but regulated abortions, regulated prostitution & porn, and sex education are really chad.

To summarize, we will be on common ground in the vast majority of the key issues in the economy. You may not be a pure socialist, but I can still work with you for a more humanitarian world. Socially, your moderate progressivism is super great (progressive in many areas, but also conservative when it matters.) I disagreed with the presidential system but still liked your reformist tendencies. I just know that we are good friends policy-wise!

Neo-Blartism (61.5%)

What's the deal with your enthusiasm for wildcat strikes, lol? But anyway, direct democracy is good, but not the abolishment of  representative democracy. I don't fancy revolutions, especially the first world where we can play by democratic rules. Additionally, I am both skeptical of your short-term planning (at least it's decentralized) and your long-term  communist society without the state, money, or a  market system. You're also too culturally left and too  civically down. However, there're also other characteristics of yours, like federalism and anti-racism, that are enough to offset your downsides. Despite your flaws, I'm glad to find someone who loves workers' self-management, organized labor, free movement of people, and opposes the death penalty as much as I do! The market is good for higher productivity, though.

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Neo-Immorxism (58.6%)

I have some criticisms of your economy, some more of the government, and especially of your cultural stance. You restrict soft drugs, abortion, and adoption for certain people too much. The punishment for blasphemy and apostasy is way too disproportionate. As for LGBT issues, you're still  conservative, but I like that you are willing to tolerate people in the community. Economically speaking, a centrally planned economy is a bad way to distribute resources, and the lack of circulating money doesn't help much. Otherwise, we have more shared beliefs in the economy than I thought. I love the organized working class, economic democracy (a crucial element in socialism,)  the preservation of the environment, and a strong public sector. I'm not a fan of a one-party state because of a high chance of corruption, but your  direct democracy can resist that tendency somewhat, so that's cool. You're too hostile to international trade, but nationalism and anti-imperialism are based. Generally, you're too socially right-wing and centralized but still have mostly good economic traits.

ThisIsMyUsernameAAAism (57.1%)

You actually have pretty okay cultural stances. I agree with you that prisoners should be rehabilitated since crimes are caused by poverty more often than not. However, the abolition of prisons is not a way to achieve it. You would want to keep serial murderers away from the wider society so that they couldn't do additional harm. And also, the people's militia might serve exactly the same purpose as normal law enforcement would, so there's no need to abolish the police lol. As a social progressive, you are right to support technology as a means to improve human life (and save the environment in the process!) Feminism is also pretty good. It empowers women to be more equal to men. The policy that could help women out would be the legalization of abortion and you're right to support it as a way to reduce maternal death rates. LGBT rights are cool, and I'm in favor of regulated but accessible guns for people too!

Now we move on to your anarcho-communism and this is when I'll get more critical. To start, your method of achieving full communism is, quite flawed to say the least. The toppling of the existing order requires far more blood to be spilled than working within the current democratic systems to enact lasting changes. Why be unnecessarily violent when you can be much more peaceful in achieving your goals? And then there's also the gift economy. It could exist at a small scale as charities in the current market framework, but it's not applicable at a large scale. That's because individuals aren't as cooperative as you think they are. And finally, statelessness. I can understand liking negative liberty but the state can also ensure positive liberty. The government could ensure a baseline of needs for everyone to flourish and they also help save the world from climate change!

So to summarize, you are very culturally left-wing, but we can still compromise on quite a lot of issues to build a more tolerant society. But, I disagree heavily with abolishing the state or the market. Still, the aggregation of all of your policies leans ever slightly good (due to the similarity of our cultural stances.)

Conservative Socialist Nationalism (52.9%) - Wow, you really remind me of ComradeShrek and TheImmorxy. Anyways, your intercultural principles pretty much strike a balance between excessive division and ruthless assimilation. Couple that with the phase-out of outdated practices along with the nurture of patriotism and I think your way of maintaining national unity is on point. Similar to other AuthLeft people, your decision to put certain industries under public control and/or ownership is definitely good (namely, natural monopolies along with healthcare and education services.) However, you also have similar pitfalls as them as the result of your embrace of state socialism. Central planning shouldn't be done. It's bureaucratic and doesn't respond to the need of the consumers. Moreover, there's a problem associated with nationalizing practically everything. When a businessman creates a new enterprise (co-op or not,) it will immediately be seized by the state. That's just authoritarian. For the collectivization of agriculture, it's really hit-and-miss. I believe that the farmers should ideally band together with agricultural cooperatives to take advantage of economies of scale, but nationalizing every farm will most likely lead to shortages of food. And the protectionism... Don't you know that freer trades help developing countries develop and industrialize their economies?

For the dictatorship of the proletariat to be present, other capitalist parties would have to be outlawed, which isn't very democratic. Otherwise, at least you're more civically liberal than other authoritarian communists, with freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and legalization of homosexuality (although the latter two are limited in scope.) I'm still wary of you planning to get rid of me when you get into power, however, you're not that bad when I got to read your page (less statist than Comrade Shrek for sure. :troll:)

Then we finally moved on to your cultural principles, which are as I expected from a European social conservative, so I will rate them one by one. First of all, heavily restricting abortions may save the baby, but it will hurt the women instead. A study has been done and they found that liberalizing abortion laws does reduce maternal death rates. So, we should definitely consider the lives of the baby and the women's lives as well, not just the former. The primary way to reduce abortion rates to this should be to introduce comprehensive sex education, but you might be iffy about this. Also, I don't see what's wrong with performing sex work, as long as the workers are not coerced into doing the service just to get out of poverty. I believe anyone should be able to do things that they enjoy the most, with democratic rights in the workplace. Finally, I really don't get your hostility toward transgenderism. We know that gender-affirming healthcare has been shown to improve the mental health of transgender people. At the very least, you view women as being equal to men, so that's something.

So, looking at your beliefs as a whole, they're meh. The socialist mode of ownership is neat, but you go kinda far to get them. Civil liberties are definitely there, but not comprehensive. Many of your conservative views are pretty bad, however.

(52.8%)

In some instances, nationalizations could be very beneficial for some areas (such as the water industries, healthcare, housing, transportation, etc.) and I'm glad that you have put those under public ownership. However, I think that in any other cases, firms should be cooperatively managed and compete with each other in a market instead of publicly owned due to the risks of stagnation. You shouldn't also use the labor notes, as that could make charities and all cash-based welfare services obsolete. National sovereignty is definitely our point of agreement, like how the movement of capital should be restricted, or how foreign interventions to spread democracy are primarily counter-productive.

But your hardline stances on the power of the state and traditional values have held you back. Firstly, liquidating people in the undesirable classes is too violent and should be substituted for integrating them in the new society. Secondly, sex workers might be taboo, but could still be retrained to do other jobs instead of being forced to do hard manual labor. I could argue that the labor camp in and of itself is actually a form of exploitation, but instead of the private employers doing it in factories, you have the state doing it against the criminals and undesirable people. Additionally, if you care about equality, then you should be in favor of "marriage equality." The idea is that unions for same-sex couples should have equal rights as traditional marriages. At least you leave the matter regarding LGBT up to the religious community to decide, but usually, they are more socially conservative than not. What's more, I disagree with your strong revolutionary methods to realize socialism. The bloodshed might be too much to justify the end goal.

On economic issues, I could work with you on many areas, like putting the key means of production under state ownership, being less entangled in unjustified foreign interventions, enacting strong supportive policies for working families, and strengthening the cooperative sector (but not the removal of markets and money.) You can also organize strikes to bolster the reforms cementing workers' rights and even democratizing the economy. However, we would be quite heavily opposed to each other when it comes to cultural policies. If I look at your self-insert as a whole, I would say that your policies are still leaning more good than not, but at a very slim margin.

Neo-Daveism (50%)

Your economics is quite nice. For example, I highly enjoy your advocacy for workers' control of their guilds, as self-determination for labor is more productive. As for your social views, it's bad. Reactionarism is way too far back for me. That's because I like the emphasis on reason, empiricism along with secularism, and the constitution. Even though there's nothing inherently wrong with the rule of the most qualified, aristocracy is usually undemocratic, as only the nobility holds any power. A national identity is needed to preserve our sovereignty, so props to you. Your civic views are mixed, in my opinion. Delegation of power from the central authority is necessary for the daily administration. I don't like absolute monarchism, as one dynasty usually declines until it gets inevitably replaced by another one. Constitutional monarchism can work out, but an established legal framework (a product of the Enlightenment) would already constrain the monarch. Also, I'm not sure whether a monarch does better than an elected leader. Overall, this's indeed a wacky ideology.

Neo-Bingoism (42%)

You're too undemocratic for me. On the one hand, absolute monarchism creates a large divide between the rulers and the common people. Furthermore, one-party states will most likely repress any competing political organizations. The rule of the military is exclusionary, and social conservatism is dated. On the other hand, you're not without some redeeming qualities. Parliamentarianism is a much better form of government than a presidential system, and I like radical representation of the workers. Not sure about the state meddling in the workplace, but syndicalist economics are worthwhile. I'll occasionally ally with you to advance socialist policies, but not much else.

(40%)

As a supporter of the existence of a government and a market economy, I would disagree with you on statelessness and the gift economy. The idea that we could give things to strangers without expecting anything in return is great, but not applicable for a larger society. Trading one item for another is much better and more sustainable. Also, significant state action is needed to institute social welfare, take actions against global warming, or even democratize our economy in the medium to long term (which you want.) Speaking about the environment, I think that you would want to fix the current crisis, but being doomed about the inevitability of global collapse isn't going to cut it. And as a reformist, I heavily disagree with you on doing whatever it takes to reach your goals, even crimes. We should care about improving the material conditions of the people in the short run while not losing sight of our utopias (even though my vision would be drastically different from yours.)

Judging your ideals as a whole, I absolutely like economic democracy as a concept and will ally with you to advance it (not illegally of course.) I enjoy your advocacy for the individuals to form associations voluntarily (which is something that we have to a certain extent in current democracies) and for them to be less reliant on market dependency (which can be fixed with reforms by the way.) But sadly, your bad parts just narrowly overshadowed the good ideals that you have.

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Gallery
8Values/NewValues:

Closest Match: Democratic Socialism

DozenValues:

Closest Match: Left-Wing Populism

LiberationValues:

Closest Match: Liberal Socialism

LeftValues:

Closest Match: Democratic Socialism

AltValues:

Closest Match: To be decided

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- I want to know who was that one social democrat that was convinced into becoming a mixed-market socialist thanks to you