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In reply to the discussion: That Incredibly Awkward Moment when People Discover that You are Socialist [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)39. That is state ownership and management of the means of production. The author
is making his own definitions.
State socialism doesn't mean the state owns *everything*. Nor does it mean that the state doles out everything & the population owns no personal property. It means minimally that the state owns/runs key industries.
Nor is state socialism the only kind of socialism.
Nor do hutterites have a 'state,' in fact they are anti-state christian anarchists.
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That Incredibly Awkward Moment when People Discover that You are Socialist [View all]
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
OP
I get weird looks when people find out I belong to the ACLU. Always a WTF moment for me. Like
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#2
Yep, I often think back about the same, and here they are, making it just just like "them" they
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#21
Unfortunately, many Americans think with their emotions and those emotions are 70 percent erroneous.
BlueJazz
Dec 2012
#6
I went through my grandfather's drawers and found out he was a member of the Socialist Party -LOL
LeftInTX
Dec 2012
#11
Five years ago I was having a discussion at Thanksgiving with my family on how I thought
Cleita
Dec 2012
#14
Went through four years of college in a so called Christian school being called a socialist. I
jwirr
Dec 2012
#15
Everyone in the MILITARY, using the taxpayer subsidized PX and TRICARE are SOCIALISTS! nt
TheBlackAdder
Dec 2012
#16
It's worse than you say. I did look for the proper definitions in Google, and those bastards
jtuck004
Dec 2012
#24
I think he is making the mistake that for "state socialism" to work it would be based on altruism.
white_wolf
Dec 2012
#28
by the "state apparatus". what is the state apparatus of the hutterites? for that matter,
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#35
That is state ownership and management of the means of production. The author
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#39
I read the article. I wish the author's friend had a blog, sounds like it would be instructive.
jtuck004
Dec 2012
#25
lol. the sailors didn't know how to run the ship once the captains disappeared.
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#32
I just tell people I'm a Socialist, a Liberal and a Progressive, and then talk right through...
Systematic Chaos
Dec 2012
#33
I had a kid in my class tell me socialism means you have to give your shirt away--
Starry Messenger
Dec 2012
#36
Christianity: "And from him who takes away your coat, do not withhold your shirt either."
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#37