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Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Linus Torvalds is a "full-blown woke communist"? Citation needed.

I have been a FOSS enthusiast since my preteen or early teenage years (mid-to-late 2000s), yet I am not in any sense a communist.

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"full-blown woke communist" is US-speak for "Scandinavian socialist"

The term you want is social democrat, which isn't socialism but hey, it tries to like, stop people starving to death on the street, if only because it looks ugly.

[–] Robaque@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

Scandinavian corporatist-social-democrat*

Did you know the Scandanavian countries have more economic freedom than the USA! Its their saving grace. They also have many private roads. The early 20th c saw capitalist Nordic countries become very wealthy and store up sovereign funds. These funds were than blown dry in the later half of the century as they became more socialist. They have now abandoned many socialist policies and again adopted freedom. They do however still have high taxation.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 17 points 1 year ago

His dad was a straight up member of the Finnish Communist Party. He's still alive, and is even a member of the European Parliament, but seems more liberal/centrist these days.

Linus himself seems to be pretty mum on politics.

[–] akulium@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

To me it always seemed like Linus Torvalds is mostly a pragmatist.

Richard M Stallman on the other hand...

[–] Metatronz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think the dates are more relevant than the software. COVID pandemic was probably more impactful here than Linux.

[–] kzhe@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

He made a comment sarcastically and replied to an accusation labeling himself as such