Originally Posted by Fascfiter

I don't think that your average right-winger has any idea what the word means. Here is Socialism, as used by rightists:

1) Anything vaguely Liberal
2) Taking money from decent, hard-working Americans, and giving it to lazy, degenerate criminals (usually Black) who refuse to work.

Now here is Socialism, from Mill's Political Economy, as quoted in Black's Law Dictionary:

" ... not necessarily implying communism, but applied to any system which requires that the land and the instruments of production should be the property, not of individuals, but of communities or associations or of the government."

So can I ask you to in the future make an effort to use the term properly? Not as a blanket term for "anything I happen not to like."