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minus-squareAxolotl@feddit.itBanned from communitylinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-219 days agoThen you met someone who is socialist and idiot; Please don’t lump everyone together, you just look like an idiot if you do so
minus-squareyucandu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·19 days agoI have yet to meet a single self-described socialist willing to admit that welfare programs like universal healthcare in democratic countries are a form of socialism. Will you be my first?
minus-squareAxolotl@feddit.itBanned from communitylinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·19 days agoThat’s a socialist policy implemented in a capitalist system, nothing more
minus-squareyucandu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·19 days agoIt’s not a capitalist system or a socialist system, it’s called a mixed economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_economy One could make the same argument about a socialist country forced to coexist and trade with a capitalist world. Absolutism gets us nowhere.
Then you met someone who is socialist and idiot;
Please don’t lump everyone together, you just look like an idiot if you do so
I have yet to meet a single self-described socialist willing to admit that welfare programs like universal healthcare in democratic countries are a form of socialism. Will you be my first?
That’s a socialist policy implemented in a capitalist system, nothing more
It’s not a capitalist system or a socialist system, it’s called a mixed economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_economy
One could make the same argument about a socialist country forced to coexist and trade with a capitalist world. Absolutism gets us nowhere.