Marxism, what you got?

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While we have Marxism being mostly about promoting the proletariat, or working class, as the owners of the means of production. It was based in the first industrial revolution, so it basically had to do with the workers owning the very factories where they worked instead of being exploited by the bourgeois, who were at the time a somewhat newly developed class of people in Europe, who had to fight their own battles with the aristocracy to become a class of people who developed industry into an economic force. So where in the world does social health care fit within Marxism? It doesn't really. Marx was concerned with the way factory workers were being treated and compensated. Unions are certainly a natural result of Marxist thinking and the US saw great economic success during the 20th century when unions were at their strongest. Since then they have diminished considerably and workers have lost massive amounts of economic stability and wealth.

Socialism is about collective ownership of most everything and apportionment by ones needs. That's a far cry from any policies promoted by Democrats. And you could point to some policies that Republicans are fond of as being related to socialism, too. Farm subsidies are a good example. And all the subsidies given to large corporations, not to mention the scandalously cheap leases that big companies pay to drain public lands of their resources. What about trade policies that allow companies to move production to foreign countries? You know, the one's Trump hates. Those were all supported by Republicans and mostly still are even if Trump bitches about them. It's because rich people help rich people stay rich.