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Opinions on socialism?
#poll
It’s shit and evil
Don’t care
It’s ok but has problems
Socialism is what we need
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Anonymous 1w

Every economic/political “ideology” has problems. Socialism I feel just has the least. Its main problem is that it relies on the government actually wanting what’s best for its people.

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Anonymous 1w

The US already has a lot of socialist policies but they just don’t call it socialism because that’s scary 😭

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Anonymous 1w

I think it's pretty idealistic and only works practically in a cohesive society. Without that, it would lean towards authoritarianism

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Anonymous 1w

How socialist are we talking, Norway socialist or Cuba socialist?

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Anonymous replying to -> shazam 1w

Thats a huge fucking problem. Imagine trump with more power.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

Socialism doesn’t necessarily give “more power to the government”. It mainly makes more things the responsibility of the government, things like the welfare of the countries people, you know, kinda like what the government is supposed to do in the first place?…

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1w

Not really, a lot of European countries have many socialist policies and I wouldn’t call them authoritarian. The main reason so many “socialist” countries became authoritarian is due to cia intervention or because they were founded on agrarian societies rather than industrial

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Anonymous replying to -> shazam 1w

I would argue that it worked for a time because they were cohesive societies with shared cultural moral values and that they are now leaning towards authoritarianism in areas where they have lost that social cohesion for various reasons

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1w

…what various reasons might that be… Also a majority of actual authoritarian countries are capitalist.

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Anonymous replying to -> shazam 1w

Making more things the responsibility of the government is the same as giving more power to the government.

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Anonymous replying to -> shazam 1w

The government exists to protect natural rights, not to run the economy.

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Anonymous replying to -> canesfan 1w

Norway isn’t socialist.

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Anonymous replying to -> shazam 1w

The more capitalist a country is, the more democratic it tends to be

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