thread.
I like the idea of a thread about socialism, especially given what has been written in the last one.
For a thread about misconceptions, it has two pretty huge ones.
First is : socialism isn't compatible with capitalism.
It's a weird belief, that I, personally, attribute to the habit of having nice, clean definitions.
Socialism is a word used by thousands of political movement to refer to themselves, over more than once century.
Thinking that it refer to one unified theory is naive beyond words. The French or Belgian socialist party isn't willing to disband private ownership, or to abolish capitalism.
Of course, the radicalization of the right in the last years play a important part here : a right wing extremist consider that capitalism have to be left alone completely, thus that any meddling in the economy the end of capitalism. But for him even Keynesian economics is anti capitalist, and that's just nonsense.
Second, that nazi weren't socialist : Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei : national socialist Germans worker's party. Yup, they said they were socialist (but were against communism, which is what socialism seems to refer to in America these days.). Of course, that doesn't make socialism a branch of Nazism.
Of what could be discussed in this thread : of course these two statement and any idea you might have over socialism, whatever side are you on.
I'll ask for no derail. If such a thing happen, I'll lock the thread, write a summary of what has been said, and start a new one.
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