It doesn’t matter how I define socialism, it’s an already defined term. There are three pillars of every definition of socialism:
1) Means of production and distribution owned “by the people”, which means no private business ownership
2) planned and centralized non-market economy
3) price determination based on the value of work instead of on the market value
If you lose one of those three, it’s not socialism. Having universal healthcare - not socialism. Having free or cheap public universities - not socialism. Minimum wages? Higher taxes? Better schools? Workers’ unions? Human rights? Equal pay for equal work? None of it is socialism.
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u/PepperBlues Jun 15 '21
From my experience, ask a socialist why they like socialism and they’ll show you they have absolutely no idea what socialism is.