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In a nutshell (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/socialism@lemmy.ml

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[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Socialism is when the government does stuff”. Bad meme.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I read it as socialism is when you have public services for addressing common needs, and capitalism is when you try to extract profits from needs.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be fair, it is easy to misread.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it does work as a conversation starter, which is good :)

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Yep, I agree! Just wanted to say it could have been clearer.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Easy to understand the shittier of the two to be fair too though.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Yep, absolutely!