• PilferJynx@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Both communist and capitalistic systems have different expressions of socialist programs. It’s too bad that the transition from capitalist to communist economies stops at the authoritarian stage.

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      1 year ago

      Socialism is the workers owning the means of production. It is not welfare programs. It is not a “socialist” program to give a starving person bread, it is a state run charity, and they make damn well sure it’s both hard to get and try to shame you for needing it.

      When society was largely feudal, was it “socialism” when the king hosted a public feast to celebrate selling his daughter to a rival warlord? Or was it him giving some of the peasant’s taxes back to them and expecting gratitude?

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          1 year ago

          Yeah, unfortunately. If only they had access to some kind of collection of human knowledge they could use to look up basic definitions or something.