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[–] [S] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That’s socialism, right?

The Marxist definition of socialism is that the government owns the means of production. That definition prevailed during the Cold War when you had such socialist countries. Communism is a utopian state which is promised to come after socialism. It's the system of a post-scarcity society where you don't have property because everything is abundant. The state withers away because it is no longer needed. Basically, it's a society like in Star Trek. In Marxist thought, the development is: feudalism->capitalism->socialism->communism

Of course, it's not wrong using the term "socialism" more loosely.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Under any definition it is most definitely not something that would have been acceptable to most Republicans if done by a Democrat.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah. It's pretty funny. It made me think of some of the rather conservative takes that are passed off as leftism on lemmy, which is how I got the title. Of course, meddling in the economy is straight fascism, too, of course. I really wish I had chosen something else now.

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