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Cannonpointer » 18 Jul 2014 6:00 am » wrote: Not at all, kid. Those are merely the welfare state programs that accompany capitalism in every instance where capitalism is found. The welfare state is the flotsam and jetsom of a capitalist economy - one of the many facets of capitalism.

But you girls INSIST that socialized medicine, socialized higher education, proper regulation of corporations - that these make European nations "socialist." Google the words "hoist" and "petard," ignoramus.

Unlike what you have been gooning all over the board, SOCIALISM is state ownership of the means of production. Here, let me help you with this book called the "dictionary:"

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/socialism?s=t
Just try to be with it, son: the dictionary says that socialism is state owvership of the means of production - which makes you and Heritage liars about Singapore being capitalist. We don't go to Heritage for definitions, Devry. We go to the dictionary.

social organization that
advocates
the
vesting
of
the
ownership
and

control of
the
means
of
production
and
distribution,
of
capital,
land,
etc.,
in
the