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They're "socialist" like current "democratic socialist" European governments?
by BlueTemplar 6y ago
They're "socialist" like current "democratic socialist" European governments?
- rendall 6y agoPersonally, I don't think so. I wish there were two separate words for these two concepts: * the proletariat seizing the means of production from the bourgeoisie (or 'volk' from 'untermenschen' in the case of the Nazis) and distributing resources from a centralized economic authority * generous social benefits funded by high taxes as a matter of public and social policy They're both labeled "socialism" but completely different ways and results. In the US, discussion of the second is always stymied by conflation with the first