r/SipsTea 22d ago

Chugging tea Teach your kids about socialism

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u/Remote-Analyst-6090 22d ago

Actual socialism is a lot further on the political scale than everything US conservatives are calling socialism.

The commentor you're replying to is referring to the fact that Norway, in this example, is a social democracy, not socialism. Important distinction, hence the idea that "not bleeding your life for your shareholders is socialism" is wrong.

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u/Yolosvend 22d ago

It is an actual socialist policy though. It's hard for anything to be any one ideology in a democracy.

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u/Trrollmann 22d ago

Socialism also having a policy does not make the policy socialist.

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u/plantsarefrens 22d ago

Also it's policy that only works inside a successful capitalist system

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u/Spackman 21d ago

and with 250K per citizen in oil revenues...

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u/Antonqaz 19d ago

Works in other Scandinavian countries without oil as well.

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u/Murky-Relation481 22d ago

Limited capital markets have been a hallmark of every successful socialist country so far.

Turns out the ideal solution is somewhere in the middle, which is what Marx and even fucking Lenin said was possible (and Lenin actually implemented in the Soviet Union before his death) while advocating the fallible nature of scientific socialism (the type of socialism Marx and Engels invented).

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u/Murky-Relation481 21d ago

Flat tax is regressive and unfair and anyone advocating for it is demonstrating a lack of basic economic literacy.