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I asked, concisely and simply, what was being hidden from us. Most of them just berated me, one user claimed the Syria conflict to which I provided a link to a recent UN Statement on which quite accurately reflected the conflict start to finish. Another user claimed that the recently declassified Nixon era documents about the Chilean revolution and coup, but I was able to find a 1973 archived Newspaper accusing the Nixon Admin of having a hand in it from Times Magazine meaning it was already a mainstream theory at the time.

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[–] 1 point 10 months ago (11 children)

They aren't socialism you dingus are you serious? That's literally just spending taxes, what's what every government does. Decides how to spend taxes

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (10 children)

    Spending taxes on goods and services for the public is socialism's barest definition. Roads are socialism. Libraries are socialism.

    You want to know what's not socialism? The USSR.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    By this logic all governments thought history are socialist. So what's the purpose of the word? Without meaning to sound rude, you are simply incorrect. Socialism is not "spending taxes good". The barest definition might be economic democracy. My own barest definition would be workers controlling the means of production.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Socialism and Communism are the only words in the English language to describe a system of production and redistribution of goods owned by the workers and the general public.

    The fact that these words are also defiled and poisoned by autocratic militaristic dictatorships like the USSR, China, etc is just the circumstances we find ourselves in.

    Their antonyms would be Mercantilism or Capitalism, though mixing of the systems can exist due to the complex nature of markets and society, wherein privatization produces goods and services based on profitability.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Socialism isn't just when the government "does stuff" bucko. It involves the restructuring of political economy to one where workers are in charge of state apparatus

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (5 children)

    Perhaps such a system could involve workers voting on how best to allocate resources?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (4 children)

    Yes. Socialism isn't one thing. There are different ways of structuring socialism; the most important thing is that the workers hold power. Your description aligns with the anarchist view.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I just described when the government “does stuff” bucko.

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