Zutroy wrote:You were so erratic and vague (and still are) that I couldn't isolate a specific question to answer.
On the first three questions, yes. Private property of any type (corporate, intellectual) is objectively just as much of a weapon as a gun or knife, and should be vigorously controlled. The basic principle there is protecting people from other people, no different than a law against homocide.
On the last question and the confused and possibly identical examples that follow it, wealth should be redistributed. In the context given in the previous paragraph, it is simply disarming an opponent. Regarding government officials, they do not constitute a class. If you think they do, then you do not know what the definition of a class is, nor do you know what government officials are in a literal sense. This all leads back to the same thing, and it is that you don't have a basic grasp of what socialism is. This is evidenced by the fact that you put the 'President of the EU' next to Chavez and Stalin (who you probably possess only anecdotal knowledge of anyway).
The EU and some of its other counterparts are so nakedly free-trade capitalist that it would take a complete and absolute moron to mix it up with socialism. Do you honestly have any idea what the process of joining the EU involves? The existing members of the EU go to such extreme lengths to make sure that any country considering joining doesn't put a drag on their capitalist economies even slightly that it is a bit revolting. They don't want their economies linked to any 'deadweights' in capitalist economic terms and they have a plethora of regional and international standards tied to their requirements to ensure that any admitted country is as capitalist as Wall Street, Damrak, La Défense, Bankenviertel, Levent, or any other place they will be economically linked to. Needless to say, it is the opposite of wealth redistribution.
Now we are getting somewhere here and yes I do know the difference between them. Everyone here WAS saying Europe was socialist I linked them in under socialism not dictator. Would it help if I said Brazil, the E.U., and Cuba instead? Just like how you would link America, E.U., and Canada under Democracy. Why do you hate property so much?