• foggianism@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Giving everyone affordable housing would be socialism! Bailing out corporations with hundreds of billions of dollars every decade or so is not socialism, though. That would be straight up communism, but pssst

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      6 days ago

      That would be straight up communism

      Not really though. Communism means that the workers own the means of production. Bailing out billionaire-owned corporations is not that.

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        6 days ago

        Communism also means that the big companies get bail money whenever they struggle financially. It doesn’t matter if in capitalism the big corporations are billionaire owned. The money they are being bailed out with is tax money of the common people.