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Are workers owning the product of their labour and managing the company democratically? If not, it's not socialism, it's welfare. It's really, really not compl

Are workers owning the product of their labour and managing the company democratically? If not, it's not socialism, it's welfare. It's really, really not complicated and the way the term has been stripped out of its meaning (primarily in the US) is just awful.

DyslexicAtheist 6y ago
> (primarily in the US) afaik _only_ in the US? or are there any countries where the socialist bogey man is used this way by countries without a working social safety net? - Paying 20% of your paycheck to insurance = good capitalist affordable. - Paying 4% of your paycheck to Medicare = bad communist too expensive Americans are the most propagandized people in the world. -- @LeftistCEO the US agitprop machine doesn't even distinguish between communist and socialist - both terms are used interchangeably. Bernie Sanders and how he is viewed is a great example here: his policies would have been considered moderate in socialist Europe of the 60ies/70ies (and especially in the often cited "well working" model of socialist Sweden, Denmark Norway).