(May 29, 2018 at 10:00 am)Divinity Wrote:(May 28, 2018 at 1:18 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: How Germany a socialist country? Have they seized the means of production from the bourgeoisie? No. Have they nationalized all their major industries? No. I mean, it's just changing the definition of socialism to mean "having a modern welfare state." Which doesn't fit any definition of socialism that I know of. Germany even has a socialist political party, but they aren't in power and don't control anything.
Republicans long ago changed the definition of Socialism to "having any form of welfare"
And then changed the definition of Communism to "being Socialist."
How do you define a socialist country? I was in Europe and spent a lot if time around Germans this winter. We talked about their system a lot and honestly, it sounds pretty similar to the U.S. more similar than different.