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> until we become a socialist (possibly communist) state The word you're looking for is "totalitarian", not socialist. This Red Scare preoccupation with socia
by s_kilk 9y ago
> until we become a socialist (possibly communist) state
The word you're looking for is "totalitarian", not socialist.
This Red Scare preoccupation with socialism as the ultimate evil is, frankly, laughable.
- eehee 9y agoCould you point me towards any examples of "good" socialism?
- shawabawa3 9y agoThe healthcare system of every developed country except the USA
- eehee 9y agoYou don't really need socialism for proper health care. Almost all of the countries you're referring to are solidly capitalist economies.
- matt4077 9y agoThey are, but their health care systems are everywhere on the scale from textbook socialism to capitalism-with-lots-of-rules. The UK's NHS, for example, employs the doctors, paid out of general government revenue, and provides otherwise-free health care.
- 45h34jh53k4j 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model
- eehee 9y agoSocial democracy is not socialism.
- matt4077 9y agoThat's not the point. The GP's error was calling the policy in question "socialism". It is not. Even if socialism->bad were always true, that doesn't imply the reverse, i. e. bad->socialism. Spying on citizen has historically been used by every non-democratic regime, from the right-wing fascists to left-wing communists and west-wing Nixons.