Originally Posted by Epoch
Do you even know the structural and ideological differences between Communism, Capitalism, and Socialism?
You used that same argument on me a long time ago, and it's frankly, completely nonsensical. USSR was a communist government, and countries like Sweden, Denmark, and Canada are socialist. Quite different, huh?
By the same token, we call ourselves a Democracy, when we're actually a Republic with some concepts of Democracy fused in...
actually, if you want to get into definitions and the idology of communism, there has never been a truly communist government. the USSR was a novel effort but ended up being no more than an extreme form of socialism. it's called Marxian-socialism for a reason. communism was the intended end product, but it never got that far. Sweden, Denmark, canada, etc.. are not extreme forms of socialism, but the same problems are still inherent on a smaller scale as Sweden is figuring out.
link as well as Canada with their constant health care issues
and if you want to get technical about it.. you're right, we're not a democracy. we're an aristocracy. a republic is a state or organization who has a chief of state that is not a monarch; democracy, aristocracy, etc... are different practices of government of such states.. apples and oranges