What is socialism to you?

[Silent Majority]

No.


Socialism is the idea of a society in which workers own the means of production instead of the bourgeois, thus eliminating exploitation by the latter.

Read Marx.

That is communism. Socialism involves government control.

Communism is a stateless, classless society. Socialism is when the workers control the means of production.

[Antiliberalbis]

That is communism. Socialism involves government control.

Communism is a stateless, classless society. Socialism is when the workers control the means of production.

Anarchy. Communism.

[Libera Patria]

An unachievable pile of rubbish. It's very nice and all on paper, but in practice it tends to end up with a small group of people on top of society claiming to represent the common man. It wants to make everyone equal, and it ends up making all but the leading vanguard equally oppressed and poor.

[Priory Academy USSR]

That is communism. Socialism involves government control.

Wrong. That's state socialism only.

Well, the Government control of all public services ie the hospitals.

[Bosiu]

Definition to me is that the public owns the means of production. With the definition out of the way I think it's the magical understanding that things would run better if we just broadened the pool of idiots that run things.

[Kvatchdom]

Communism is a stateless, classless society. Socialism is when the workers control the means of production.

Anarchy. Communism.

Communism is anarchy.

[Antiliberalbis]

Anarchy. Communism.

Communism is anarchy.

If that were the case, we wouldn't need two different words to describe the same thing. Communism is a system. Anarchy is a lack of a system. Communism keeps people together to work towards a comman goal, much like a beehive.; Anarchy just lets people run free with no purpose.

[Zohai]

Is there anything you aren't clueless about?

[Antiliberalbis]

Is there anything you aren't clueless about?

It is the blind who leadeth the blind here. I hold the light, yet no one sees.

[Wallonochia]

If that were the case, we wouldn't need two different words to describe the same thing. Communism is a system. Anarchy is a lack of a system. Communism keeps people together to work towards a comman goal, much like a beehive.; Anarchy just lets people run free with no purpose.

I'm really not sure if you're doing some sort of postmodernist performance piece or if you honestly have no idea what you're talking about.

[Divair]

Communism is anarchy.

If that were the case, we wouldn't need two different words to describe the same thing. Communism is a system. Anarchy is a lack of a system. Communism keeps people together to work towards a comman goal, much like a beehive.; Anarchy just lets people run free with no purpose.

Anarchy isn't a lack of a system. It's a lack of a state. Please, get educated.

[Hippostania]

Oppression, tyranny by majority, violation of inviolable rights, suffering, poverty, selfishness and misery.

[Laerod]

Oppression, tyranny by majority, violation of inviolable rights, suffering, poverty, selfishness and misery.

Bring it. We could use some more of that Finnish oppression and poverty across the world.

[Conscentia]

Socialism: An economic and political system in which the means of production and allocation of resources are under public or common ownership and cooperative management. (I.E. Applying democracy to all forms of business, not just governance.)

[Conscentia]

Oppression, tyranny by majority, violation of inviolable rights, suffering, poverty, selfishness and misery.

What do you have against democracy?

[TuNasai]

Hell...

[The Killed]

To me socialism is working class rule of the economy (either through state-ownership, cooperatives or self-employed) and of the state in whatever form it exists in.

[Nazi Germany Reborn]

The only good socialism is National Socialism.

[Laerod]

The only good socialism is National Socialism.

Which isn't socialism.

[Vecherd]

Oppression, tyranny by majority, violation of inviolable rights, suffering, poverty, selfishness and misery.

Bring it. We could use some more of that Finnish oppression and poverty across the world.

Finland is a pretty strong Market economy though.

[SquareDisc City]

Seems to me that what most here are calling "socialism" I would call communism and is similar to the actual policies of governments that styled themselves communist.

"Socialism", to me, is what Americans say and believe Europe has. Wrongly, going by the definitions people are giving here.

[Conscentia]

To me socialism is working class rule of the economy (either through state-ownership, cooperatives or self-employed) and of the state in whatever form it exists in.

State-ownership is not socialism. A state is essentially a business concerned with the governance of a nation-state.
State-ownership is as capitalist as private ownership.

[Laerod]

Bring it. We could use some more of that Finnish oppression and poverty across the world.

Finland is a pretty strong Market economy though.

And apparently he hates it.

[Conscentia]

Bring it. We could use some more of that Finnish oppression and poverty across the world.

Finland is a pretty strong Market economy though.

One can have both socialism and a market economy.

(That's not to say that Finland is socialist... Finland is not socialist. It's capitalist.)

[Vecherd]

Finland is a pretty strong Market economy though.

One can have both socialism and a market economy.

(That's not to say that Finland is socialist... Finland is not socialist. It's capitalist.)

Yeah but the chance that Finland being defined as a Free-Market Socialist nation was so small I didn't bother with the details.