“Neither private property nor billionaires disprove socialism.” - I mean, the world’s first socialist state, the Soviet Union, had abolished private property and didn’t have billionaires. Neither did Yugoslavia and neither does Cuba, just to name a few.
“Such criteria are of moralist origin, it is plain revisionism to force moralism where it does not belong to begin with.” - This is a stupid and lazy argument. If anyone’s a revisionist, it’s you. Communism is a stateless, moneyless and classless society. Socialism is the road to Communism. Private property and billionaires (literally capitalists) are a barrier to achieving a Communist society. It can be argued that China has the dictatorship of the proletariat, and that it is progressive and that it has elements of a socialist political economy, but I don’t consider it socialist. If you can argue that China is socialist, then you can argue that the UK and America are socialist. How would you define socialism?
“Neither private property nor billionaires disprove socialism.” - I mean, the world’s first socialist state, the Soviet Union, had abolished private property and didn’t have billionaires. Neither did Yugoslavia and neither does Cuba, just to name a few.
“Such criteria are of moralist origin, it is plain revisionism to force moralism where it does not belong to begin with.” - This is a stupid and lazy argument. If anyone’s a revisionist, it’s you. Communism is a stateless, moneyless and classless society. Socialism is the road to Communism. Private property and billionaires (literally capitalists) are a barrier to achieving a Communist society. It can be argued that China has the dictatorship of the proletariat, and that it is progressive and that it has elements of a socialist political economy, but I don’t consider it socialist. If you can argue that China is socialist, then you can argue that the UK and America are socialist. How would you define socialism?