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The Greatest Lie about the Red Scare is that it Ended (lemmy.ml)
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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I mean this is provably false

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First sentence from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism :

Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

The social safety nets in the imperial core—which are built on the backs of the neocolonized—are not socialism.