What is "socialism"? - An attempt to clear up myths/misconceptions

[Leadified]

DonFerrari said:

Cubedramirez said:
State controlled means of production and capital generation through regulation and violation of property rights.

Also it leads to a lot of people dying.

I do find it funny how people mention Nordic countries yet have never been there or even accept the fact those countries actually refute the socialism tagline. People confuse a countries culture for their government. Very much market based Representative Democracy which works for a country that size. It would not work for a nation like the United States because you'd have to eliminate state rights in order to achieve that system.

That is because socialists need to pretend it can go right, so they'll say Nordics are socialist countries while all the comunist/socialist countries that had intense famine, death and abuse "weren't real socialism".

What a load of nonsense, no socialist worth his salt would call the Nordic countries socialist. This reductionism of combining social democrats with socialists is getting old and in this very thread you already had a socialist explain the flaws of social democracy.

Last edited by Leadified - on 29 January 2018