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Webmaster4531 posted...

They're all wrong.

In the many years since socialism entered English around 1830, it has acquired several different meanings. It refers to a system of social organization in which private property and the distribution of income are subject to social control, but the conception of that control has varied, and the term has been interpreted in widely diverging ways, ranging from statist to libertarian, from Marxist to liberal. In the modern era, "pure" socialism has been seen only rarely and usually briefly in a few Communist regimes. Far more common are systems of social democracy, now often referred to as democratic socialism, in which extensive state regulation, with limited state ownership, has been employed by democratically elected governments (as in Sweden and Denmark) in the belief that it produces a fair distribution of income without impairing economic growth.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism

Socialism is a political, social and economic philosophy encompassing a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership[1][2][3] of the means of production[4][5][6][7] and workers' self-management of enterprises.

Please let me know if a single country that has ever even remotely attempted that.

Also please don't call social democracy democratic socialism. I realize Bernie Sanders has zero idea what he is talking about, but that doesn't make his definitions true by virtue of being that vaguely leftist guy in US politics. In actually functioning democracies with multiple political parties with different ideologies they don't confuse social democrats with socialists.

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