• Zuberi 👀@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 months ago

      Is the spreading of a banks' bad bets to the poors not a form of socialism for the rich?

      Edit: I 100% believed it was the "gov does stuff" definition. Not gunna delete my post, you know, for the future libs who see the light like I do

      • MoreAmphibians [none/use name]
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        10 months ago

        Not really, Socialism is when the workers control the means of production. You're using the American definition which is "Socialism is when the government does things and more things it does the more socialist it is". This video should help (and is also the source of that joke).

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysZC0JOYYWw

      • MF_COOM [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        No. That's capitalism. It's capitalism when the state works hand in glove to deepen the wealth and power of the ownership class.

        Socialism isn't tax distribution, it's workers having direct control over society and the tools to create wealth.

      • 187_Invitation [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        Check this out it's short :)

        https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm

  • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Well, one person did call bailouts "socialism", hopefully ironically, since bailouts for the rich is capitalism.

    https://youtu.be/Lkqb1pQrCcg?si=UKS1qAIgkbZdaGi0

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    That's because the first three suck and the last one is cool and good.