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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo if you're against extreme income inequality, does that make you a socialist?
big time.
Seems to be the meme some right-wingers are pushing.
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So if you're against extreme income inequality, does that make you a socialist? (Original Post)
raccoon
Jan 2014
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hobbit709
(41,694 posts)1. To the right wing anyone to the left of Temujin is a socialist- or worse.
IntravenousDemilo
(5,431 posts)2. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
pampango
(24,692 posts)3. It makes you a 'damn European socialist'. We all KNOW how their society is collapsing from too
little income inequality.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)4. yes. Democratic regulation of the economy is a form of socialism.
And we should stop being afraid of our democratic socialist new deal heritage.