re: #309 My Name is Muerte!

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,…

if you define socialism the way it’s usually used in this country these days, it applies more or less to every government that’s ever existed since the beginning of history