Terms

[pasithea]

Fascism: A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.

Socialism: A theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.

Funny how so many fascists sling the word 'socialist' as though it were a swear word. Not surprising, but funny... In a sad kind of way.

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[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

The more the right talks about "socialism" the more I feel like a socialist. Everything they decry as "socialist" sounds pretty damn good to me.

[paka.livejournal.com]

I'll repeat myself, but...

Okay, so what's supposed to be so wonderful about capitalism as a system, the whole free market economy, is that anyone has a chance to make it, that consumers are constantly offered a wealth of options through competition. A lot of the benefits of the public health thing seem like they'd be great for everything capitalism is supposed to be about; a healthy workforce producing more effectively, potential entrepreneurs and small business owners having the opportunity to work on their dreams, mid-level businesses being able to expand, less fearful people having more money available to dump back into the market. Wait a moment, if that's not a healthy free market economy, what do the "capitalist" foes of "socialism" really want?

"Fascism" hadn't occurred to me, but "feudalism" had.