Although the statement in the image defines "socialism" in terms of all
sorts of services, the traditional definition of socialism encompasses
many systems (I post an excerpt from Wikipedia below). Typically,modern
Republiklans define socialism as any government provided goods or
services to the general public (not welfare to the wealthy, including
for-profit corporate subsidies that are subsequently converted to profit
revenue stream to the for-profit entity, as with the development of
COVID-19 vaccines) except for the military and police/prison systems
(although most have no difficult with private for-profit prisons and
other services under contract to the government and generating profit to
the for-profit entities).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
Socialism is a political, social, and economic philosophy encompassing a
range of economic and social systems characterised by social
ownership[1][2] of the means of production[3][4][5][6] and democratic
control[7] or workers' self-management of enterprises.[8][9] It includes
the political theories and movements associated with such systems.[10]
Social ownership can be public, collective, cooperative, or of
equity.[11] While no single definition encapsulates the many types of
socialism,[12] social ownership is the one common element.[1][13][14]
Socialists disagree about the degree to which social control or
regulation of the economy is necessary, how far society should intervene
and whether government, particularly existing government, is the correct
vehicle for change.[15]
Socialist systems are divided into non-market and market forms.[16]
Non-market socialism substitutes factor markets and money with
integrated economic planning and engineering or technical criteria based
on calculation performed in-kind, thereby producing a different economic
mechanism that functions according to different economic laws and
dynamics than those of capitalism.[17][18][19][20] A non-market
socialist system eliminates the inefficiencies and crises traditionally
associated with capital accumulation and the profit system in
capitalism.[21][22][23][24] The socialist calculation debate, originated
by the economic calculation problem,[25][26] concerns the feasibility
and methods of resource allocation for a planned socialist
system.[27][28][29] By contrast, market socialism retains the use of
monetary prices, factor markets and in some cases the profit motive,
with respect to the operation of socially owned enterprises and the
allocation of capital goods between them. Profits generated by these
firms would be controlled directly by the workforce of each firm or
accrue to society at large in the form of a social dividend.[30][31][32]
Anarchism and libertarian socialism oppose the use of the state as a
means to establish socialism, favouring decentralisation above all,
whether to establish non-market socialism or market socialism.[33][34]
On 3/5/21 9:13 PM, raccoon (Redacted sender bigraccoon1 for DMARC) wrote:
Also, never call on the police or fire departments or call for any kind of military action because the military is 100% socialist. Also don't use public roads and avoid all private business that is subsidized with taxpayer funds, such as airlines, auto manufacturing, agriculture and big pharma, including vaccines.
