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Socialism, unlike communism, isn't inherently evil. Socialism can be a noble and productive goal in a society that all shares the same values. The problem is, such a society is rare these days. 100 years ago every American could agree on almost everything. Now, it's a challenge to find two Americans that don't hate each other.
Don't fall for the MSM gambit of conflating socialism with communism. Communism is evil and all communists are evil, no exceptions. Socialism, when applied correctly, can be good.
Yes it absolutely is. There is no argument, its a rotten ideology to its core, full stop.
Just like a dictatorship isn't inherently evil. But it always ends up that way.
And to quote the old commie bastard Lenin himself:
In the end we're all splitting hairs here. Fascism, communism, socialism, dictatorships. They're all dead end authoritarian ideologies that end up abusing and mass murdering their own people and more often then not fail in spectacular fashion.
Lenin proclaimed the system of "War Communism" (locally) just "on the way to Socialism" (globally).
Just as democracy is.
What matters is who is in control.
You were only downvoted because your opinion is stupid.
Just playing. If even the slightest limit on corporatism is socialism, then yeah, socialism becomes a necessity.
Corporatism is socialism.
Think about a monopoly. One super-organization (likely international and so somewhat exempt from any actual government) sets the prices for an entire sector of goods and services. If you work for them, your skills are specialized to their field and they decide what you do; you can follow orders or you can quit and starve. It's functionally equivalent to state control of the economy.
Socialism (on either side) is a country full of monopolies, directed by the government.
Now look at reality. Governments don't limit corporations, they're subsidized by the government. The only way that the government was able to seize funds from protestors (which they argued would require the as-yet-unpassed Emergencies Act to do) was because the payment processors and banks agreed to do it, outside of any legal action.
Yeah "privatized".
"You can do what you like so long as it's what we want you to do"
Sounds familiar...
Difference being nazis were actually pro German , anti communist , pro conservative values and pro family and anti LGBT and actually had the support of the German people. Didn't illicit mass unrest and protests of Germans demanding their freedoms, didn't persecute a father for calling their son, son and not daughter , didn't send armed police lines on their own, didn't shut the country down over a cold , didn't pass laws to restrict Germans and only Germans, explicitly excluding all other peoples living in the Rhine etc. etc.