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Originally Posted by The Batlord
You sound angry.
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No, not at all, I wrote that bit cause I thought it was amusing in a "funny cause it's true" kinda way...
But beyond the obvious absurdity of most of the usages I cited, I don't think talk of "true" socialism or the "true meaning" of the word socialism will get you anywhere. There are too many different models, many of them at loggerheads with one another, an enormous number of specific factors involved in each case etc and so forth.
On some accounts it's synonymous with Marxism, on others with one of the countless strands of anarchism, on others still with post-WWII Keynesianism etc. How does one pick which one is the privileged version?