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Literally no one would agree that is a definition of socialism. https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Asocialiasm https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Aso
by psychometry 9y ago
Literally no one would agree that is a definition of socialism.
https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Asocialiasm https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Asocialiasm
- krapp 9y agoYou're talking about the definition of socialism as accepted by people familiar with socialism versus the definition of socialism by people who consider it "Stalinism lite" because they have only ever encountered it as a pejorative to that effect. Whether or not they're technically accurate is irrelevant - it's still what many Americans believe. Reasonable people can disagree with it but it's simply untrue that "literally no one" agrees with it.
- mixedCase 9y agoI do believe he meant socialism as it's been advertised in the western world (see: Bernie Sanders, parts of Europe and Latin America) rather than socialism as "workers owning the means of production" (see: Marxist theory); since the latter has never lasted in a prosperous country/occurred at all (depending on who you ask and in which context).