re: #316 engineer cat

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

Socialism is putting the society ahead of the individual, whereas Communism is the ownership of the individual in the sense of full control of actions and beliefs. The conflation of Socialism with Communism which is totalitarian and tyrannical is an American thing. Most European countries and Canada are far more accepting of the Socialist/Free Market hybrid common in the top economies.