Socialism means the government controls everything.
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Libs say ignorant crap all of the time. Marxist Theory, Lenin, Hegel, nor the dictionary describe socialism in the way they attempt to describe it. Paying into the system, then getting it back in some form later is a subcontext of trade within Capitalism. Our social programs are funded by capitalism. Socialism means the government produces all income methods and services. The individual owns nothing, and only gets what the government rations to you at its own will at its own whim, with property and funds that only it owns. Me owning property, paying into a system that yields back, and having a fire department funded by people with private property is the opposite of socialism. It's capitalists who own private property agreeing to funds being alotted to defense. We can even privatize the system, and many have, all without any federal government involvement. Not even almost socialism. Side: truth
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We have been living in a democratic socialist country for YEARS! The government "controls" a few things like, NASA and military bases, etc. but NOT everything! Much of Europe is democratic socialist and there it is the same! If it's communistic socialism the government owns YOU! In a democracy the "government" is OF, BY and FOR the people, so what it controls IS controlled BY the PEOPLE. NO way you can change that unless you give up your democracy whether you use a socialistic economic system OR NOT! The conservatives have spread a picture of socialism and linked it to communism. It can be "linked" to about any political system. Bernie is NO commie! Side: facts
United States of America Government Federal presidential constitutional republic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnitedStates Democracy: rule of the majority Side: truth
Definition of socialism 1 : any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods 2a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state Side: truth
The conservatives have spread a picture of socialism and linked it to communism No. The dictionary has. Socialism: 3 : a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done https://www.merriam-webster.com/ And no. Socialists have. "The goal of Socialism is Communism." -Vladimir Lenin Side: truth
Bernie is NO commie! He attended a USSR kibbutz and openly quotes Marx, Alinsky, Lenin, and Hegel. (CNN) A small collective community in northern Israel, modeled after the communist ideals of the Soviet Union, may hold clues to the development of U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders' political beliefs. Sanders is Jewish and a self-described "democratic socialist." In the 1960s, he spent several months volunteering on an Israeli collective farm, or kibbutz, that functioned according to communist principles. Side: truth
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