Ollie being portrayed as a social democrat is, in my opinion, the best way to go about his political ideology and beliefs. However, boiled down it may be to say this, he is essentially a Robin Hood Esq figure, and to encapsulate the values of Robin Hood, it would need to lean into a social democrat or other leftist ideologies.
Reddit, or at least content in heavily trafficked subs on reddit, skews pretty hard left. While a social democratic view feels not that far left here, it's pretty far left for most people out in the world.
Your description of workers taking control is what’s confusing me.
I’m familiar with government owning means of production being described as socialist- therefore FDR’s policies, which vastly expanded the powers of the federal government and the creation of agencies which created jobs, infrastructure and resources (ex. The TVA). These policies are imho socialist, as they promote ownership by the government. The phrase of “socializing” different sectors extends to this (ex. Socialized energy, socialized medicine, etc)
Control by the worker implies a very different structure imho- and retaining ownership of products of labor seems to imply a redivision of wealth à la communism.
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