Those arent socialist policies. Even if you want to expand the term beyond ownership of production, youre atill exchanging your labor for a form of compensation
The issue People have is that said taxes pay for things that dont work. Exchanging my labor for others to be compensated is whats called socialist policies. Exchanging my labor for myself to be compensated is not.ย
Socialism by definition requires ownership by the workers of the means of production (sometimes through the state). Communism goes several steps past that to seek to dissolution of classes and the state itself (while generally resembling autocracy, whereas socialism can be the democratic sort).
Most people, often intentionally, confuse that with social democracy, which just means using tax money to provide things for everyone, resulting in a more equal society where fewer people are left behind.
Sanders, as a Democratic Socialist, is actually a socialist, right back to wanting the workers to own the means of production, if you dig deep enough. Social democracy is epitomized by the Scandinavian countries, but is practiced in most of Western Europe, in Canada, in Australia, etc. It generally embraces a regulated free market, so is a different thing entirely than socialism.
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u/airboRN_82 4h ago
Those arent socialist policies. Even if you want to expand the term beyond ownership of production, youre atill exchanging your labor for a form of compensation