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But "socialism" is a scary word (slrpnk.net)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Socialism is when the government does stuff, and when it does a whole bunch of stuff, its communism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Hopefully that's tongue in cheek, but it's pretty much how a large (voting) segment of the population sees it. Freedom Good, Government Bad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's famous quote from professor Wolff who said it incredibly ironically, just watch the clip. But yeah, tons of people actually do believe this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It’s a quote from (left) professor Richard Wolff. Link

Edit: had gotten the first name wrong