"the most important thing Germany has, is its social welfare system, we do not say please give something to the poor because they are poor. Instead we say STOP IT, HELP YOURSELVES GERMANY, For this man is a brother to me and i am no better than he is. We help one another because all we have is one another"
Socialism is when the government owns the means of production. Social welfare is not socialism. It's public benefits.
The government does not own the means of production regarding, say, retirement accounts. You are free to set up your own retirement account and manage it on your own, subject to taxation laws. But there is also social welfare from Social Security.
Nazism is in fact national socialism because the Nazi government controlled everything that businesses did, going so far as to tell businesses who they hire and fire, how much they would produce, how much they would pay, etc. Business owners were reduced to mere pensioners. The Nazis even outlawed private unions and replaced them with a single state-run union called the German Labor Front.
You didn't address a single thing I said on the merits. You're engaging in projection and being dismissive. The textbook definition of socialism is not "extremely narrow." It's the definition. Words mean something.
Social welfare is not socialism. If you want to cut government spending, at least address the actual issue: overspending on social welfare programs. Bailing out an industry is not in itself socialism. It's social welfare to corporations.
Hitler was a hardcore socialist.
"the most important thing Germany has, is its social welfare system, we do not say please give something to the poor because they are poor. Instead we say STOP IT, HELP YOURSELVES GERMANY, For this man is a brother to me and i am no better than he is. We help one another because all we have is one another"
Socialism is when the government owns the means of production. Social welfare is not socialism. It's public benefits.
The government does not own the means of production regarding, say, retirement accounts. You are free to set up your own retirement account and manage it on your own, subject to taxation laws. But there is also social welfare from Social Security.
Nazism is in fact national socialism because the Nazi government controlled everything that businesses did, going so far as to tell businesses who they hire and fire, how much they would produce, how much they would pay, etc. Business owners were reduced to mere pensioners. The Nazis even outlawed private unions and replaced them with a single state-run union called the German Labor Front.
That's not right wing. That's left wing.
You didn't address a single thing I said on the merits. You're engaging in projection and being dismissive. The textbook definition of socialism is not "extremely narrow." It's the definition. Words mean something.
Social welfare is not socialism. If you want to cut government spending, at least address the actual issue: overspending on social welfare programs. Bailing out an industry is not in itself socialism. It's social welfare to corporations.