How do you define Socialism?

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Anonymous wrote:Socialism is the battle cry of the undereducated and fearful.

No Democrat wants socialism as a form of government. Not one.

What absolute BS. And I do believe Bernie, AOC, et al would beg to differ.

No they wouldn’t. Even Democratic Socialism isn’t socialism.

Turn off Fox and read an actual newspaper. Better yet, borrow your grandkid’s social studies book.

If anything, it seems you need to take your own advice.

“The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the largest socialist organization in the United States.”
-from the DSA website

[Anonymous]

Fox and the Republicans have created this ridiculous bogeyman of “socialism!”.

[Anonymous]

Medicare, social security and public education are all socialism. So is trump’s aid to American farmers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Medicare, social security and public education are all socialism. So is trump’s aid to American farmers.

Police force, fire brigade, penal institutions
It is not a bad thing. Parts of socialism has been successfully implemented
Russia had Stalinism. To know what socialism is you need to look into theoried, philosophy

[Anonymous]

Liberals want:

reparations
college debt erased
socioeconomic equality

Yeah, none of you want socialism. LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Medicare, social security and public education are all socialism. So is trump’s aid to American farmers.

Not so. All government spending does not equal socialist. Despite what comments on a 10 year old yahoo thread might say. But by your definition, policing would be socialistm. Given the recent acts of allegedly racist shootings, socialized policing fails, no?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's the shiny new word that Fox News has taught Trumpsters. Never mind they don't know what it really means.

Huh. Interesting. I guess this absurdity is all simply a figment of our imagination then, right?

https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/05/democratic-socialist-convention/

Daily Caller? Come on, Dude - look up what “propaganda” means first - then tackle “socialism”.

Ok, “dude” - here’s CNN reporting on exactly the same thing. Thanks for admitting CNN is propaganda.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/08/05/politics/democratic-socialists-of-america-convention-2019/index.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fox and the Republicans have created this ridiculous bogeyman of “socialism!”.

It's the new "immigrant caravan".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Socialism is the battle cry of the undereducated and fearful.

No Democrat wants socialism as a form of government. Not one.

What absolute BS. And I do believe Bernie, AOC, et al would beg to differ.

No they wouldn’t. Even Democratic Socialism isn’t socialism.

Turn off Fox and read an actual newspaper. Better yet, borrow your grandkid’s social studies book.

If anything, it seems you need to take your own advice.

“The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the largest socialist organization in the United States.”
-from the DSA website

So what?

[Anonymous]

Did all these Trumpsters fail their basic history lessons?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is only one definition: collective ownership of the means of production and distribution. Very few Democrats are actually advocating for this, except for those that belong to the democratic specialists of America party.

Collective ownership of production is communism not socialism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Liberals want:

reparations
college debt erased
socioeconomic equality

Yeah, none of you want socialism. LOL

Hon, none of those things are "socialism." Bless your heart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Medicare, social security and public education are all socialism. So is trump’s aid to American farmers.

So is Trump hosting the G7 next year at one of his clubs.

[Anonymous]

Corporate welfare
Farmer Subsidies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Corporate welfare
Farmer Subsidies

There is a pretty clear distinction between welfare programs and socialism. I see many other people in the thread making the mistake. Socialism is the collective ownership of means of production/distribution. Corporate welfare, or other regulations that unfairly benefit corporations, does not result in collective ownership of the corporations and is therefore not socialism. Farm subsidies which either seek to advantage farmers or to make up for some observed disadvantage of farmers do not result in collective ownership of the farms and are therefore not socialism. During the aftermath of the financial crisis, the US "bailed out" a lot of large banks and the US automotive manufacturers by giving "loans secured by equity" - even though the US government tried very hard to only provide stability for the recovery, the fact remains that this action nationalized a portion of these banks and auto manufacturers, resulting in the partial collective ownership of these entities, and was therefore socialism.