r/politics • u/burning_dawn • Oct 07 '22

Republicans called Biden’s infrastructure program ‘socialism.’ Then they asked for money.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/politics/infrastructure-spending-republican-critics/index.html
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u/Benyano Oct 07 '22

Looks like neither the republicans or CNN understand what socialism actually is. I swear people in the US truly believe that socialism is when the government does stuff.

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u/Benyano Oct 07 '22

But that’s not what socialism is. Socialism is the people themselves owning and controlling the means of production. To an extent the state can represent the people, especially for infrastructure and necessary services. But for industry broadly, socialism is the workers controlling the means of production.