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yucandu@lemmy.world 9 hours agoI have yet to meet a single self-described socialist willing to admit that welfare programs like universal healthcare in democratic countries are a form of socialism. Will you be my first?
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 4 hours ago
That’s a socialist policy implemented in a capitalist system, nothing more
yucandu@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It’s not a capitalist system or a socialist system, it’s called a mixed economy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_economy
One could make the same argument about a socialist country forced to coexist and trade with a capitalist world. Absolutism gets us nowhere.