The fact that you implement some policies that are socialist in nature, doesn't mean that whole system you're running is socialism. Especially considering that all these states run capitalistic economies at their core
Well, woudn't be the first time words get new meaning due to events in history.
Thing is, socialism as a system has surprisingly almost no strict definition. The best I've ever found is "Democratization of access to means of production" or "State control of means of production"
By these definitions Polish socialism with its centrally planed economy was an actual socialism.
Because it appeals to misguided people who have no idea what shit show it was.
Seriously, in Polish Sejm there's currently no party with "Socialism" in the name. That brand doesn't sell here
In reality the model you described earlier runs in majority of European countries - state run health care + state run or at least state controlled critical infrastructure + some welfare for poor - all of this financed by taxes collected from capitalist economy.
By all possible definitions it's a welfare state
Most of civilized world outside of US works like that.
You seem to confuse free education and healthcare, government control of essential resources (water, electricity) and government taking case of the poor and disabled to some authoritarian communist shitshow behind the iron curtain.
You're mistaking socialism for welfare state. Socialism IS the authoritarian shitshow behind iron curtain
Who the fuck cares. Elon, is average moron playing average game. If this was something important, I could understand, but this is nothing more than attention whoring.
The Worst Person You Know
Asmon isn't even close to to the top of the worst people I know. What even is that title?
Talk about misinformation: Wired purposefully didn't cite actual statement which was: “The biggest success after that terrible era in our history was to label Adolf Hitler as right and conservative. He was exactly the opposite. He wasn’t a conservative. He wasn’t a libertarian. He was a communist socialist guy,”
With the context it reads more like communist-like person, not literal communist.
But the context be damned, we hate Elon and Wired confirms our bias so we eat misinformation like it's a gospel written by God himself
It's illegal migrants cleansing party. Never saw anything about ethnic in their claims