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Why not? The state takes resources from the wealthy and uses them to provide services to the general population. That's socialism in a nutshell.


Try again. Socialism is where the government controls ALL means of production. They set how much toilet paper is produced daily, and they do it based on arbitrary means not supply and demand.

Social Democracy -- is capitalism with some programs added in, heck Police, Fire, and Roads maintained by the state are SOCIAL DEMOCRACY programs -- maybe you should have to pay if you want the fire truck to come put out your fire, call 911 what's your emergency? And can I have your credit card?

Dictionary definition: a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole

Under social democracy you can still start companies, still own businesses, nobody's taking that away, we just want to make sure that those who earn the most off the backs of the people's work contribute to lift up those who are burdened the most at the bottom.


You've setup a strawman to argue against. Few people think that extreme is a good idea. History has proven that it does not scale well and is considerably less efficient at allocating resources than capitalism. It's also highly prone to corruption because the power is concentrated at the top, which is ironically exactly the same problem that capitalism has, even though those communist systems were built to solve the problems of capitalism.

In this US any talk about redistributing wealth will have your policy (and you) branded as a socialist.


An option besides socialism though that looks interesting is the Venus Project, or Resource Based Economy -- where all goods and services are available to all people without the need for money, credits, barter or any other means.


>Few people think that extreme is a good idea

Unfortunately people has short memory. In the last elections here in Spain more people than ever voted far-left parties, including supporters of terrorist groups. Just the coalition between communists (Unidos Podemos) received more than 5 million votes.

Even convicted terrorists from ETA, and Terra Lliure won their seats.

Sadly, far-left and far-right populism is going up in Europe.




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