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  • handing social welfare to poor and disabled, etc

    The fact that you implement some policies that are socialist in nature, doesn’t mean that whole system you’re running is socialism. Especially considering that all these states run capitalistic economies at their core

    Well, woudn’t be the first time words get new meaning due to events in history.

    Thing is, socialism as a system has surprisingly almost no strict definition. The best I’ve ever found is “Democratization of access to means of production” or “State control of means of production”

    By these definitions Polish socialism with its centrally planed economy was an actual socialism.


  • Because it appeals to misguided people who have no idea what shit show it was.

    Seriously, in Polish Sejm there’s currently no party with “Socialism” in the name. That brand doesn’t sell here

    In reality the model you described earlier runs in majority of European countries - state run health care + state run or at least state controlled critical infrastructure + some welfare for poor - all of this financed by taxes collected from capitalist economy.

    By all possible definitions it’s a welfare state

    Most of civilized world outside of US works like that.


  • You seem to confuse free education and healthcare, government control of essential resources (water, electricity) and government taking case of the poor and disabled to some authoritarian communist shitshow behind the iron curtain.

    You’re mistaking socialism for welfare state. Socialism IS the authoritarian shitshow behind iron curtain