Does Bernie Know Dems Need A Miracle?

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(03-03-2020, 11:43 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: Ok, lot's of confusion here on what is socialism and what isn't. Let's begin with a primer: Socialism is an economic theory in which collective, public ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods occurs.

Medicare/medicaid, and by extension medicare-for-all as a single-payer healthcare system, still utilizes private individuals and companies to produce and distribute the goods/services for healthcare. This means that it is not a socialist program.

Socialized medicine, like the National Health Service that exists in the UK, is a different thing. The doctors work for the NHS. That is government (public) control of the means of production and distribution of goods. This is a socialist program and is not what is being proposed by anyone of any consequence in this country.

Brad: you're wrong in your understanding of socialism.

Benton: you're wrong in your understanding of socialism.

Anyone else who is using a definition other than the one I provided above: you're wrong in your understanding of socialism.

When you overuse the term socialism to describe social welfare policies you are playing into Cold War era fear-mongering where anything and everything that didn't fit our way of life was deemed socialist/communist.

Says the leftist who works in academia...