"everyone uses "socialism" to mean whatever they think it should mean and then argues" The general idea of socialism is the forced redistribution of wealth or

"everyone uses "socialism" to mean whatever they think it should mean and then argues" The general idea of socialism is the forced redistribution of wealth or property, which pretty much doesn't change in all of the different versions of socialism. I consider massive taxes to pay for government programs a form of socialism (taxes that go above and beyond the basic funding of a nation/country. IE: fire, police, roads, schools). As these taxes get bigger and bigger, the wealth distribution becomes equal and it starts to really become more of a communist system. It seems to me that the people that don't want it called 'socialism' want to hide the fact that it's exactly that.