It means both, depending on context. A label is a tool and all tools are neutral, as to be defined by the individual.
For example --
A hammer is not good nor bad. You can build a fence or bash someones skull in, but a hammer is not exclusive to one or the other.
Gun Powder is not good nor bad. Pretty fireworks, deadly bombs. Gun Powder is not exclusive.
The real trap is society tricking us into believing in one singular definition of a label and then tricking us into thinking we need to fit ourselves into the box of the label. Those who control the meanings of labels, control all who believe in the label. The tools become the wielder of the human.
I think we just need to stop the judgemental absolutist attitude the joke of an educational system indoctrinates us into with its deceptions.
You're right. In the context of a right wing talking point, socialism is "government action". When socialists talk about socialism, they refer to the ownership of the means of production by the people.
Right and left each have their own dualisms unto themselves, as they too are merely labels which we define, but are tricked into adopting someone else's view as being the one and only absolute.
There is no "the context of a right wing talking point" but you have pointed out "a" context of a "potential right wing talking point probability".
For you see, right wing and left wing are not so absolute as we've been tricked into thinking. I am what they call a political anomaly. Middle path. Centered. I allow myself my individuality which means, I can simultaneously agree and disagree with both the right and the left, because I refuse to put myself in either of those limiting boxes.
I also see right and left as two points of contrast and everything between those two points is measurable and creates so much variety and it is all of this variety which hides in plain sight, in the fog of our complacency.
Right, but there is socialism as it is concretely defined, and as it is rhetorically abused for politically opportunistic purposes. It's simple enough I guess.
Yeah, just saying that all words are labels and thus tools and thus all subject to the same sort of peril if we disable our discernment and just blindly hop onto the BS waggon idea of there being only one singular absolute context for everything.
In my experience, theres no such thing as a word which only has one. If we as humans bother to do the research into the meanings and origins of words, lets just say we may be shocked by what we find
For example, Government is Latin for Mind Control. Democracy is Latin for Rule of Mafia. Now, someone might assume that government only has the one standard societal spoon-fed definition and one might also assume that democracy also has the singular absolute societal spoon-fed definition; however this assumption is the right to a persons free will choice to make the assumption, it is not an absolute static reality which applies to all humans
Now lets say hypothetically, there was such a thing as a word with only one definition. That definition will be filtered through the paradigm filter of individuality. 7 billion people will see that one thing, in 7 billion different ways.
I've always said that if we could get 7 billion people to agree on any one thing, they would have 7 billion different reasons for agreeing and then proceed to fight over whose one singular absolute reason is supposedly right Society has made us into insecure and irrational children. The more we "grow up" into "adulthood", the more we actually "devolve" into complacency and addiction to the familiar and fear of the new and different.
For example --
A hammer is not good nor bad. You can build a fence or bash someones skull in, but a hammer is not exclusive to one or the other.
Gun Powder is not good nor bad. Pretty fireworks, deadly bombs. Gun Powder is not exclusive.
The real trap is society tricking us into believing in one singular definition of a label and then tricking us into thinking we need to fit ourselves into the box of the label. Those who control the meanings of labels, control all who believe in the label. The tools become the wielder of the human.
I think we just need to stop the judgemental absolutist attitude the joke of an educational system indoctrinates us into with its deceptions.
There is no "the context of a right wing talking point" but you have pointed out "a" context of a "potential right wing talking point probability".
For you see, right wing and left wing are not so absolute as we've been tricked into thinking. I am what they call a political anomaly. Middle path. Centered. I allow myself my individuality which means, I can simultaneously agree and disagree with both the right and the left, because I refuse to put myself in either of those limiting boxes.
I also see right and left as two points of contrast and everything between those two points is measurable and creates so much variety and it is all of this variety which hides in plain sight, in the fog of our complacency.
For example, Government is Latin for Mind Control. Democracy is Latin for Rule of Mafia. Now, someone might assume that government only has the one standard societal spoon-fed definition and one might also assume that democracy also has the singular absolute societal spoon-fed definition; however this assumption is the right to a persons free will choice to make the assumption, it is not an absolute static reality which applies to all humans
Now lets say hypothetically, there was such a thing as a word with only one definition. That definition will be filtered through the paradigm filter of individuality. 7 billion people will see that one thing, in 7 billion different ways.
I've always said that if we could get 7 billion people to agree on any one thing, they would have 7 billion different reasons for agreeing and then proceed to fight over whose one singular absolute reason is supposedly right