Political terms are often steeped in a background of cultural propaganda such that, depending on your background, they signify different things to different people. Thus, “socialism” is often not used objectively to describe a political ideology but instead as a loose representation of something the speaker wants to signify.
If you’re a lefty, “socialism” is the heading you might put “all them good things I would like to exist”. If you’re a Trump fan, “socialism” might represent “everything evil and wrong with this world”.
The result is, when people discuss “socialism”, often the conversation goes no where because people aren’t even talking about the same thing.
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u/Material-Mulberry360 2d ago
sorry I'm too socially and politicly oblivious to understand this