I've never understood why a lot of Americans, granted they're Republicans, equate socialism with communism. Democracy itself is a socialist concept - although many Republicans seem to have a problem with democratic elections. I even have a teenage friend who was British, when upon migrating to Florida, had his critical brain removed and has become a loud exponent of the socialism = communism theory.
Many Republicans portray Joe Biden as an avowed Marxist when nothing could be further from the truth. Corbyn is described by many as a Marxist, but he's more a Keynesian, although he has described Marx as a great economist, despite Marx having worked with hardly any data, and what data there was being fundamentally flawed. This lack of data brings into question almost everything Marx wrote that relies on factual data.
Republicans ignore that the vast majority of European states are socialist in that they are social democracies, and far in advance of America in many areas.
What I find even more astounding is that a large proportion of the socialism = communism theorists in the USA are vociferous in their assertion that they are Christian. If Christianity is founded on providing succour to those most in need, then it must indubitably lie somewhere on the left of the political spectrum.
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Indeed, I've never understood why self-avowed Christians think it acceptable that anyone who can't afford medical insurance should have to sell their homes to pay for it (assuming they own a home) or just suffer and die.
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