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Well, Superman, I won't argue semantics with you. I get the impression your context of "socialism" is different than mine. As jfrancais pointed out, socialism is an ideal that makes our society all-inclusive. Without it, we would not have public education, food stamps, welfare, unemployment benefits, minimum wage and so on. Revolutions come about where there is no (or little) redistribution of the benefits of labor ("wealth" if you will), even if it extends to those who can't (or won't) find employment. For example, I expect the Mexican government to implode and go through tumultuous change simply because nothing destroys a democracy like a corrupt government and an unacceptable level of poverty. Yet, by its nature a democracy must be a capitalistic economy. Profit and wage incentives motivate production. Restated, greed is an American institution. Finding the balance between that and socialism is not a matter of fine-tuning as much as it is being...
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