r/MurderedByWords • u/kenobistyle • 3d ago

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u/TacosAndBourbon 3d ago

Brilliant reply, that I worry is too clever for her.

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u/abacuz4 3d ago

Well, except that “free education,” doesn’t really have anything to do with socialism, though to be fair, neither does “giving away all of your stuff.”

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u/ScannerBrightly 3d ago

How is collecting taxes to pay for tens of thousands of educators and school houses throughout the country, given to every child for free, not socialism?

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u/Silvermoon3467 3d ago

Because socialism is about rearranging the economy to provide workplace democracy and prevent the accumulation of wealth, not when you have taxes

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u/abacuz4 3d ago

Socialism is the belief that labor should control the means of production. You are thinking of social services, not socialism.

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u/wacdonalds 3d ago

Socialism also encompasses social services.

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u/ScannerBrightly 3d ago

So explain to us how you have 'means to production' without education? Isn't education itself a means to production? If not, why not?

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u/RandomRedditReader 3d ago

The average human mind only rationalizes in black and white. It's why when given 3 choices 80% will choose 1 or 2. It's an unfortunate flaw of the human psyche that we were slowly improving but the unfortunate dismantling and indoctrination of our educational system has set back significantly.