Generic ideological tangents may not destroy countries but they sure make internet forums suck. This is not what we want here, so please don't post like this.
I'll let whistlecrackers make his own definition, but I'd say:
- problem is not that a country has some socialist policies
- problem is not that a country has a party with "socialism" in its name in the government
- problems definitely start to appear when a country has an autocratic government, whether it was originally "socialist" or "bolivarian" or whatever; an autocratic government then typically adapts some sort of "socialism" in its name in order to justify the autocracy, the choking of free markets, the political redistribution of resources, ad-hoc top-down responses to the economic problems that eventually come up, and the suppression of free media to hide the increasing problems.
dang|8 years ago
MadSudaca|8 years ago
Angostura|8 years ago
ptaipale|8 years ago
- problem is not that a country has some socialist policies
- problem is not that a country has a party with "socialism" in its name in the government
- problems definitely start to appear when a country has an autocratic government, whether it was originally "socialist" or "bolivarian" or whatever; an autocratic government then typically adapts some sort of "socialism" in its name in order to justify the autocracy, the choking of free markets, the political redistribution of resources, ad-hoc top-down responses to the economic problems that eventually come up, and the suppression of free media to hide the increasing problems.