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To wingnuts, the word "socialism" mutates with lightning-like rapidity. Whenever it's mentioned, they insist that it means a dreary, totalitarian, impoverished Soviet-style system, one which has "always failed". When you clarify that you instead want reforms that would move us more in the direction of Scandinavia or Germany, they denounce that as "socialism".
ReplyDeleteSocialism is not the same thing as communism, it's more like a vaccine against communism -- a benign form of a dangerous disease which immunizes the system against it. It's societies without socialism, where inequality increases without limit and the workers who produce everything are more and more ground down and exploited, which are most vulnerable to a communist revolution. By making life tolerable and giving the producers a stake in the system, socialism protects against that.