Socialism and Synonyms

What Socialism Got Right

Kristen Ghodsee | MIT Press Reader | 6th November 2025

Historian of post-Communism, while acknowledging the enormous harms of the various 20C regimes, enumerates the benefits that are now vanishing under capitalism. These include a powerful sense of community, accessible and subsidised cultural life, improved workplace equality for women and planned neighbourhoods with civic amenities. These are lessons, not political heresy, she argues (1,500 words)

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Unparalleled Misalignments

Ricki Heicklen | 1st January 2018

Continually updated list of unparalleled misalignments, defined by the compiler as "pairs of non-synonymous phrases where the words in one phrase are each synonyms of the words in the other". For example: each word of "American Art" corresponds to that of "Yankee Doodle", but the phrases themselves don't match. Other gems include "father figure/dad bod" and "dark matter/midnight mass" (3,300 words)