re: #282 ggt

You know, I’m beginning to think the fear of Socialism is really a fear of Tyranny. Have there been any historical examples of the evils of which we think of as Socialism without Tyranny?

Stalin, Pol Pot, etc …

Socialism is not totalitarian, whereas Communism in the form it has appeared has been. Socialism can be considered a democratic Statism and we haven’t seen pure versions of that in real life yet, so we haven’t seen Socialism with tyranny yet.

It’s only when you conflate Communism, as it has been manifested, with Socialism that Socialism can be linked to tyranny.

We live in a moderate Socialist state now. Think military, police, fire fighters, subways,…