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Mexico’s Socialist President to Roll Out Universal Healthcare (novaramedia.com)
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[–] 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Being a socialist doesn't mean you have to ban capitalism the moment you get power. Or at all. There are many ways to be socialist and do socialist policy. The overarching ideology is the belief we can do better than capitalism by distributing the resources we create according to amount of work and need, instead of profit maximization. How and how quickly we achieve that differs between different kinds of socialists. Sometimes dramatically.

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  • [+] -8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Or at all

    Socialism is defined by opposition to capitalism, if you don't support eventually moving beyond Capitalism, you're definitionally a liberal.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago

    A socialist does support moves beyond capitalism, but in a representative democracy they wouldn't have the power to do that outright. So it goes in small steps, starting with checks and regulations to prevent capitalism from going rampant (like it is in the US).

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    You're not wrong but some render their opposition to capitalism by reducing the scope of the capitalist system. Something liberals tend not to do. Are all reformists committed to bringing it down to zero? Maybe, maybe not. I probably wouldn't call a self-proclaimed socislist who spends their life reducing the capitalist part of their state a lib if they are okay with say 10% of the economy remaining capitalist.

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