Edie comments on But "socialism" is a scary word

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Socialism is when the government does stuff, and when it does a whole bunch of stuff, its communism.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hopefully that's tongue in cheek, but it's pretty much how a large (voting) segment of the population sees it. Freedom Good, Government Bad.

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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago*

It's famous quote from professor Wolff who said it incredibly ironically, just watch the clip. But yeah, tons of people actually do believe this.

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[–] stetech@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It’s a quote from (left) professor Richard Wolff. Link

Edit: had gotten the first name wrong

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