Can you be more specific? I do not believe people are unanimous in their ideas of what 'socialist' is.
I do not support a disallowing of private property. I would support a system with MORE 'collective' or 'community' ownership, however.
Much of the population believes that Bernie sanders is a socialist. When he is clearly a capitalist who wants to adopt social policies that can benefit the masses. He is a social democrat. Social democrats favour mixed economy system. They are in for allowing private property but they also allow free healthcare, free education and free housing which wasn't what capitalist economy favoured since the things does not generate profit.
By definition around the world, socialism is a stage of social development in which private property is abolished so that workers would not be exploited and all means of production are to be collectively owned by the community. Main goal of socialism was set to set a stage to obtain communism, eventually transforming the society from capitalism to socialism and then to communism. Socialism was coined by Friedrich Engels in his thesis with karl Marx.
Socialist countries were people's republic of China, polish people's republic, german democratic republic, People's republic of Romania, USSR(Union of soviet Socialist republics) etc.
I doubt there are much socialists in United States. But there are some social democrats. My take is, Bernie sanders probably will not win. The oligarchs will not let him win. He has made it clear that once he gets to power he will crush their monopoly over healthcare and education by subsidising these facilities. This is a characteristic of a socialist.
Edited by
Blaze
on Tue 02/18/20 03:48 AM