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Originally Posted by awareness
I don't know about all of them, but I don't think the socialism being banter about by millennials these days is a orthodox Marxism, nor a Stalin, USSR, type of socialism. I think they're thinking of a Canada type, or British type, or the type found in the other various democratic socialism's, or a Social Democracy. (you can google both to learn more about these types of socialism).
Howbeit, the label socialism has become the bugaboo of the Right. It's their big scary bogeyman, to knock down entirely these ones espousing socialism. Apparently they aren't scaring the millennials.
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I agree. Marx brand of communism was an economic policy, whereas the "socialism" policies I support are about human rights and social issues.
I support public school -- that is socialism but it works very well with Capitalism and has been shown to improve the standard of living and the quality of workers.
I support the fire department and police department -- again two socialist policies that we expect everyone to get regardless of whether or not they pay for it.
I would support a universal healthcare -- another key socialist policy.
You cannot simply factor in dollars and cents, you also have to ask if society has an inherent interest in this. It is in societies interest that we all have a police force, fire department, school, and medical care regardless of income.
We used to have a capitalist system for the fire department, if you didn't pay for it they didn't put your fire out. But then the fire would spread and people who had paid would also have their houses burn down, so we realized it is in everyone's best interest to put out all fires, regardless of whether it is a wealthy person or a crack house. The same principle applies to health care.