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Socialism has another meaning that fits better into the old saying: namely, the provision by the government of economic security to the individual.
by hollerith 7y ago
Socialism has another meaning that fits better into the old saying: namely, the provision by the government of economic security to the individual.
- dragonwriter 7y agoThat's the exact misunderstanding of socialism that derives from hostile capitalist mischaracterization. If true that socialists believe that socialism has that effect, but “socialism” is not, outside of capitalist propaganda, a general term for any system which has or seeks that effect, any more than “capitalism” is a generic term for any system which has or seeks the effect of enslavement of the mass of the population to a narrow elite (even though socialists believe that capitalism has—and seeks—that effect.)