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"I tend to argue instead for actual socialism over UBI. Socialized health care, public education, infrastructure, etc." That's not socialism, at all. That's so
by cgmg 9y ago
"I tend to argue instead for actual socialism over UBI. Socialized health care, public education, infrastructure, etc."
That's not socialism, at all. That's social democracy.
As someone who comes from a country that has actually been ravaged by socialism, there's a world of a difference between the two.
- coldtea 9y ago>As someone who comes from a country that has actually been ravaged by socialism, there's a world of a difference between the two. Those countries have been ravaged by being run by totalitarian parties that followed a specific Stalinist model Not by anything specific in socialism itself. Social democracy is still a form of socialism, and until around the first world war there were one and the same (including being championed by the same people).