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I refuse to learn what that term means.
That seems a bit immature and incurious to me, just because it's an idea originating from a "utopian leftist" podcast. Really, library socialism isn't that difficult or even strange an idea — in hindsight it strikes me as maybe a bit "reinventing-the-wheel-y" but it basically just means doing for any commodity what we already do with books in libraries, i.e. treating libraries as a model for what property abolition could look like.
This has all happened before.
I just don’t care about the new terms, because the idea isn’t new, it’s marketing.
It’s like when fascists tried to rebrand at patriotic socialists.. just for a good goal instead.
Say what you mean and want.
As I was saying, it's reinventing the wheel, but as far as marketing goes, it conveys the idea well, doesn't it?
Especially considering its a common practical example of organizing resources for the benefit of a community, and there's a decent chance whoever you're talking to at a given moment is one short trip away from one.
I shrug.
Why not just call it library liberal to trick fans of Warren to sliding to the left?
Well, since you're apparently so old as to remember it, what are the past examples of people rebranding the idea?