Kyle Griffin asks:
Question: What is meant by socialism?
Meta-question implication: Folks don't agree on what socialism is.
Meta-corollary: Most folks attach fondness to a word without any clear idea of what it is.
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I think most people using the word tends to mean one or more of the following, somewhat disconnected things:
A) Kindness to other human beings
B) Strong anti-Republicanism.
C) Extensive redistribution of wealth
D) Economic Mandarinism: Central planning of economic/social decisions
E) The belief that most adults need to be protected from many of their own decisions by people wiser than the individuals.
F) The use of central planning in economic decisions to benefit the people as opposed to corporations, etc..
G) Opposition to corporate over-reach
H) The belief that the primary conflict facing humanity is a conflict between capitalists/business owners and the people (workers, consumers, and bystanders)
I) The belief that some relationships, especially employer-employed, and business-customer are inherently imbalanced, and need a 3rd party involved, to protect the weaker party's interests
J) The system that makes the Nordic countries successful.
K) The system that makes Canada successful.
L) The system that is implemented roughly and successfully in most of Europe.
M) The system that was responsible for turning Venezuela from the most prosperous country in South America into a hyperinflating toilet-paper-shortage wreck of a country.
N) The system that has prevented India from getting richer like Singapore or China these past 60-odd years.
O) The system that keeps springing up in South America and destroying the prosperity of the occasional prosperous country.
P) The economic system preferred by the National Socialist parties of the 30s & 40s.
Q) The approach that was adopted in the USA around the 1920s, after the passage of the income tax amendment, direct election of senators, and Prohibition...esp, by FDR.
R) The system implemented through Eastern Europe between WWII and the fall of the Berlin wall.
Am I missing something?
How do you use the word?
Question: What is meant by socialism?
Meta-question implication: Folks don't agree on what socialism is.
Meta-corollary: Most folks attach fondness to a word without any clear idea of what it is.
...
I think most people using the word tends to mean one or more of the following, somewhat disconnected things:
A) Kindness to other human beings
B) Strong anti-Republicanism.
C) Extensive redistribution of wealth
D) Economic Mandarinism: Central planning of economic/social decisions
E) The belief that most adults need to be protected from many of their own decisions by people wiser than the individuals.
F) The use of central planning in economic decisions to benefit the people as opposed to corporations, etc..
G) Opposition to corporate over-reach
H) The belief that the primary conflict facing humanity is a conflict between capitalists/business owners and the people (workers, consumers, and bystanders)
I) The belief that some relationships, especially employer-employed, and business-customer are inherently imbalanced, and need a 3rd party involved, to protect the weaker party's interests
J) The system that makes the Nordic countries successful.
K) The system that makes Canada successful.
L) The system that is implemented roughly and successfully in most of Europe.
M) The system that was responsible for turning Venezuela from the most prosperous country in South America into a hyperinflating toilet-paper-shortage wreck of a country.
N) The system that has prevented India from getting richer like Singapore or China these past 60-odd years.
O) The system that keeps springing up in South America and destroying the prosperity of the occasional prosperous country.
P) The economic system preferred by the National Socialist parties of the 30s & 40s.
Q) The approach that was adopted in the USA around the 1920s, after the passage of the income tax amendment, direct election of senators, and Prohibition...esp, by FDR.
R) The system implemented through Eastern Europe between WWII and the fall of the Berlin wall.
Am I missing something?
How do you use the word?