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Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
That must be a terminology issue, but I would hardly call the UK "socialist". Even the Scandinavians aren't socialist. Those are "social-democratic" countries, i.e capitalist societies that acknowledge private ownership of production means, but which limit the perverse effects of inequality.
A "socialist" country, in my book, is a country that doesn't acknowledge the private ownership of production means, except one-person businesses.
Yep... me and Spiffor on the same page on this one. No country in Europe is socialist.A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.
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Originally posted by MrFun
Now wait a minute -- United Kingdom is considered a socialist country to some extent, right?
I don't ever hear people using socialist or communist interchangeably when describing United Kingdom.
Saying all A are B does not simultaneously say that all B are A. Communists are a subset of the group of socialists. So are anarchists. Anarchists are not communists nor vice versa, and all socialists are not communists or anarchists, unless you're a sectarian who aregues that your particular ideolgoy are the only true socialists.
Nor would I accept the UK as a socialist country. Their economy is a mixture of Keynesianism and Monetarism, which are two management strategies for running capitalism.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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Chegitz, AKA smartass -- I do understand that fundemental logical concept.
However, I thought the United Kingdom implemented some economic socialist regulations/policies. So therefore, I thought that to some extent the United Kingdom was a socialist country.A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.
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