re: Why do Socialism Deniers ignore the overwhelming evidence that Socialism doesn't work

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So now you are backing out of your original position?

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No my friend you and I are on the same side...I was merely using the words that the right uses all of the time to describe government and collectivism....social security is a fine example...many on the right will argue that it is a socialist idea...when it is categorically is not...which you so succinctly spell out. I fully understand that there are very few socialists on the left in the United States....we are re-distributionists...probably even scarier to a capitalist who understands the term...we are not socialists...no one is advocating for the public ownership of the means of production, distribution or exchange....what we are advocating for is a system by which capital foots the bill for its production costs completely....and that capital does not pass the majority of those costs onto the public....redistribution, as you call it, merely asks that if you have a bill you pay it yourself, you don't ask the rest of us to pay it for you...once capital gets by with asking that EVERYONE in the nation is right to ask for it...because the alternative is a permanent underclass which has lead to the demise of ALL republics preceding ours.....

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Yet you do not know what socialism or communism means.

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I do. American liberals want neither true communism or true socialism.

The purpose of socialism is to control people, not better their lives. It works for them, the socialists.