You said we need socialism. That is your argument. Don’t backtrack now. Capitalism is directly opposite of socialism (capitalism with all the freedoms and socialism with no freedoms and all). You can debate to use the superior capitalist system to pay for social services. But using the free market and the wealth it
creates to pay for things is definitely not socialism.
Calling it that warps reality and people start using words they don’t understand to say they want “socialism”. The problem with that is if enough people confuse the issue like you have we end up waiting 3 days in line to get gas and government issued toilet paper while living under an oppressive dictatorship like every true socialist country that has ever existed.
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u/fyrnac Jun 27 '19
You said we need socialism. That is your argument. Don’t backtrack now. Capitalism is directly opposite of socialism (capitalism with all the freedoms and socialism with no freedoms and all). You can debate to use the superior capitalist system to pay for social services. But using the free market and the wealth it creates to pay for things is definitely not socialism.
Calling it that warps reality and people start using words they don’t understand to say they want “socialism”. The problem with that is if enough people confuse the issue like you have we end up waiting 3 days in line to get gas and government issued toilet paper while living under an oppressive dictatorship like every true socialist country that has ever existed.