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wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Food stamps etc are not socialism. I wish people would stop that trope.

As a republic, we can vote for social programs and not be a socialism. Socialism is the workers controlling the means of production. Capitalism is people inject capital to create a business.

Social welfare programs are not socialism. The workers do not own the means of production.

The United States, Sweden l, etc are all capitalist countries. Sweden has elected to use taxes to fund more robust social programs but that is funded by captialism.

In America we could do the same thing and we’d still be a republic based on capitalism.

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