LogFAQs > #905759353

Socialism referring to a system where the government basically controls everything is not exactly some weird fringe idea, it was pretty mainstream until relatively recently when for whatever reason people started using socialism to just refer to anything left wing. Originally, the Soviet Union as it ended up would be the definitive example of socialism, and communism was the idea that such a system would be best off by eventually transitioning to some sort of weird anarchic system that no one can really define or explain. Foolmo and Muffin aren't doing any sort of trolling by talking about socialism as a system that oppose private industry and favours government oversight of basically everything, that's pretty much what socialism has always meant, especially in North America where it seems like the whole "like capitalism but I guess with higher taxes" thing took longer to start being called "democratic socialism" than it did in Europe
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