Even from people that never lived in a communist state

edit: im 17 and i hate communism

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    6 months ago

    The first line in Wikipedia “Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems[1] characterised by social ownership of the means of production”.

    To be clear, this definition goes back to 1832, where the original inventor of the word used to define a society “based on the shared ownership of resources”. So it is not just “the communist definition” it really is the definition, it did not “originally” refer to anything else.

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      6 months ago

      But that definition from Wikipedia doesn’t contain the contested part of the definition, that it is a “transitional system”