georgephillip
Diamond Member
???Why is the right so afraid of it ?
Surely its a good thing that we help people when they stumble ?
socialism
noun
so·cial·ism | \ ˈsō-shə-ˌli-zəm \
Definition of socialism
1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
Definition of SOCIALISM
Your definition of socialism is wrong:
"a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole"
It's not wrong. It's the commonly accepted definition.
If the ideology or government you support doesn't fit the commonly accepted definition, why are you trying to co-opt the word? Why not come up with a different word to avoid confusion?
Socialism as an ideology has been split between state or worker control since the time of Marx and Mikhail Bakunin:It's not wrong. It's the commonly accepted definition.
If the ideology or government you support doesn't fit the commonly accepted definition, why are you trying to co-opt the word? Why not come up with a different word to avoid confusion?
Mikhail Bakunin - Wikipedia
"A showdown loomed with Marx, who was a key figure in the General Council of the International.
"The 1872 Hague Congress was dominated by a struggle between Marx and his followers, who argued for the use of the state to bring about socialism; and the Bakunin/anarchist faction, which argued instead for the replacement of the state by federations of self-governing workplaces and communes.
"Bakunin could not attend the congress as he could not reach the Netherlands.
"Bakunin's faction present at the conference lost and Bakunin was (in Marx's view) expelled for supposedly maintaining a secret organisation within the international."
76 years after the Hague Congress, Yugoslavia produced an example of how one school could replace the other:
MR Online | Socialism and Workers’ Self-Directed Enterprises