The entirety of civilization is based on socialism to one degree or another. Even dictators depend on socialism. The tipping point is where that socialism becomes leveraged for personal ambitions.
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How can a person who resolves their conflicts with hate feel comfortable about socialism if socialism creates a space without hate? Some people want to fight and can only fight. Removing fights removes their ability to gain status and respect.
here in the us we opperate like a socialist country pretending to be capitalist. "Distributing things evenly" is hard when no one agrees what evenly is
The rest of the commenters here are correct. Although, socialism means differently under different contexts. Socially yes, it means helping others and each other; but socialism in economic context typically means either the workers run the means of production, or the state. The wealth generated is then distributed as equally as possibly among the members.
Hold over from Stalin and Mao era, the commies was the big bad. Like after 9/11 it was the Muslims
Only if you're in the military or a billionaire.
What a hilarious place to come ask this lol
Nothing is wrong with socialism except that maybe it doesn't go far enough
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