{"id":1495,"date":"2023-04-21T18:32:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T18:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/21\/on-behalf-of-the-socialist\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T18:32:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T18:32:04","slug":"on-behalf-of-the-socialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/21\/on-behalf-of-the-socialist\/","title":{"rendered":"On Behalf of the Socialist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">How might a socialist respond to the meme below?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ecp.yusercontent.com\/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogger.googleusercontent.com%2Fimg%2Fb%2FR29vZ2xl%2FAVvXsEgiNkOMIF8wnAXvB7cwY_IW7ypqTJEkzzivLSxSmYJsfsPx4U31g2O-oXiXsMIhHg2wsbbSfdxpcg2uddpMaemtAReS5hKdT_OzOkjFNFuaIv8e68-EXW9JSsFKOwvHi_FuN59RTKW4UqnKkUfjDUKo4JxQfu9TvC3zjohPzJt7CXraIGabhA%2Fs16000%2F230421Meme01.jpg&amp;t=1682125910&amp;ymreqid=539185a9-86c9-e1c1-2f2c-5a003d012600&amp;sig=Q3M35Je08pLjh3oCjL3qrw--~D\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">One way is by committing the No True Scotsman <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/the-no-true-scotsman-or-no-true-muslim\">Fallacy.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Another is by adapting the G.K. Chesterton riff: &quot;Christianity hasn&#39;t failed; it&#39;s never been tried.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Is that the best socialists can do? If you want to weigh in on this, you&#39;d best begin by defining &#39;socialism.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How might a socialist respond to the meme below? One way is by committing the No True Scotsman Fallacy. Another is by adapting the G.K. Chesterton riff: &quot;Christianity hasn&#39;t failed; it&#39;s never been tried.&quot; Is that the best socialists can do? If you want to weigh in on this, you&#39;d best begin by defining &#39;socialism.&#39;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}