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Socialism is interpreted differently depending who and where you ask. Do you mean social democracy? Like, for example, Germany.

• adolph 3y ago
  Ask Ramsey or the review author whose words were quoted. I think he was a totalitarian commie out of intellectual hubris but maybe you will have a different interpretation.
  • wslh 3y ago
    It is good to include context here in HN since there are a lot of people from different cultures and generations and concepts could sound ambiguous.
  • AtlasBarfed 3y ago
    We view any broad bases planning and restriction as totalitarian because such things can seemingly only be implemented by such structures. I submit to you that the most brutal totalitarian existence is hard natural truths when the good times end and famine, war, plague, or pestilence come riding. Or the new horseman: nuclear assured destruction. Basically really smart people all seem to sense that a higher form of societal conduct is needed to avoid the totalitarianism of environmental Armageddon, but there is no way to do it without lesser totalitarianism.