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Old 16-02-2019, 11:00 AM   #111
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Default Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Gee some liberal interpretations of socialism here. Communism is an extreme subset of the socialist theory, where the state owns and decides everything. Socialism was a reaction to the rise of capitalism in the Victorian era, a theory to adjust the failings of capitalism against the communities and economies of the day.
Modern socialism has headed towards a democratic socialist model and your very own Australia is a great example of this. Don't get it wrong Australia is a socialist society. Greatly subsidised universal healthcare, free education, income support, welfare, a balanced taxation system, taxation on primary industries to recoup the proletariats share, substantive government intervention in the market to adjust the failings of capitalism. The balance sometimes slurs one way or the other but the Australian people keep this in check through the election cycles. Swings and roundabouts.
I consider most of Europe to in effect behave as democratic socialist states.
Communism doesn't work for the many, capitalism doesn't work for the most, socialism despite its dirty and missunderstood name is how most civil societies act.
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