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I define "Socialism" as the inventors defined it: workers owning the means of production.
by VMG 9y ago
I define "Socialism" as the inventors defined it: workers owning the means of production.
- TuringTest 9y agoPublic services in social democracies fit that definition.
- onion2k 9y agoThat's Marxism, and that definition is over 100 years old. Politics has moved on. Modern socialism is simply a larger central government providing more public services than a typical conservative government. It's also worth noting that Marx included things like national infrastructure in his definition of "means of production", and I haven't noticed that many privately owned roads in the USA... Maybe you're not quite as far from socialism as you'd like to believe.