On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 06:46:13 -0600, Howard Brazee <
how...@brazee.net>
wrote this crap:
>On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 01:33:33 -0400,
Horva...@net.net wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:18:02 -0600, Howard Brazee <
how...@brazee.net>
>>wrote this crap:
>>
>>>Every government has some socialism. Nobody wants to get rid of
>>>roads and fire stations, for instance.
>>
>>Most roads are built at the state or local level. Fire stations are
>>always at the local level. I can't see how a fire station would work
>>on a national level.
>
>So? Those are governments. Every government has some socialism.
That hardly meets Wikipedia's definition of Socialism.
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As a political movement, socialism includes a diverse array of
political philosophies, ranging from reformism to revolutionary
socialism. Proponents of state socialism advocate the nationalisation
of the means of production, distribution and exchange as a strategy
for implementing socialism. In contrast, libertarian socialism
proposes the traditional view of direct worker's control of the means
of production and opposes the use of state power to achieve such an
arrangement, opposing both parliamentary politics and state ownership
over the means of production. Democratic socialism seeks to establish
socialism through democratic processes and propagate its ideals within
the context of a democratic system.
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I don't see anything there about fire stations and roads.