Why has 'socialism' become a dirty word ?

Socialists of the past would hang their heads in shame to see the people masquerading as socialists NOW. I speak from the perspective of the USA.

"Socialism" today has been redefined by corrupt politicians, globalists and international cartels who wish to deceive our youth into believing they will be given all sorts of "free" stuff in a "New Reality".

This new So called socialism, which is anything BUT true socialism, has become a vehicle for power whores like Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, AOC, Bernie Sanders, and Ilhan Omar to infect socialism with capitalism in order to use the enormous funds of trillion dollar corporations to grab power.

These power whores represent the interests of China, Iran, Drug Cartels, and many other enemies of freedom. With their forked tongues, they lie to the American people about their motives, and try to change their own history to make themselves seem more pure...but it cannot be done.

They [b]try[/b] to re-educate and brainwash our children...take away our ability to defend ourselves in the midst of the chaos which THEY have created...take away our ability to worship our God...and remove our jobs in the interests of globalists goals...and bully and terrorize the populace in major cities...in some cases so they can buy up all the best real estate...cheap, while the populace flees.

In order to do this, they have defunded the police so we no longer have our traditional protections, refuse the assistance of the federal government, set fire to businesses and then refuse to allow the fire engines in to put out the fires...and the politicians who support and enable this are asking us to disbelieve the evidence of our own eyes. They ask us to ignore the dead children killed in the streets and by bullets inside their homes, dead while lying in their beds, and none of them will stand up publicly and disavow the people responsible.

They have the blood of children on their hands, and yet aholes will still stand before us and publicly declare that THEY must be elected...because it's all about the CHILDREN. Which ones, Kamala? The aborted babies? The dead ones? Is it about Legend? Or is it about the criminals who have been deliberately released from jail to prey upon them?

Their agenda could not be more obvious. Power. Votes.

They use groups like BLM, Antifa, and many, many others to bully and intimidate the populace so that they can grab power, create a totalitarian state with a huge central government, and put their boots to our necks.

This is a strategy used by the Communists of the past. Create Chaos and disorder, and then grab power in the confusion that follows.

Grab power after creating fear...fear to leave your house...fear to go to the voting places...and it is this fear they will USE to corrupt the carefully constructed voting practices of the United States.

The power whores will USE this virus, and use the fear they have created, to enact and employ fraudulent voting methods worthy of the ancient Tammany Hall.

The power whores who peddle "socialism" as a form of fraudulently "benevolent" totalitarianism are traitors to their nation. Like Joe Biden, they have SOLD our people to the Chinese and to Iran.

Because Socialism requires losing the individual's dignity for the collective

Because it contradicts the principles upon which this country was founded . A government of the people, by the people, and for the people can’t tolerate socialism where the government supersedes the people and freedom .

It was ALWAYS a dirty word.
Socialism has always sucked.
That's why the democrats like it so much.

Socialism - collectivism, for the greater good etc is where a few people think they know better than everybody else at everything. A few people think they know how to run the entire economy - exactly what needs to be produced and at what quantity and price. A few people think they know exactly what job and profession you should do, what you should be taught in school, who you should associate with and what your own values should be.

In a free society people are responsible for their own lives and take decisions they believe are best for them. In a free economy the global mass of people decide what is produced and quantities etc - this makes sense because people know what they want and need and it leads to a better allocation of goods and services so supermarket shelves don't end up empty etc (which is a feature of socialist countries - they always lack even basics!) Think Soviet Union, NAZI party in Germany, DPROC, Cuba, Venezuela etc. Socialism has a dirty history from start to now has killed and impoverished millions, it's a rotten, antiquated system where the state plays God. It's not just a dirty word it's a dirty system.

Socialism looks good backed by capitalist tax payer hand outs..

Take the jobs away.. see how long the freebies they think will last forever lasts..

When the people fear government there is tyranny. When government fears the people there is liberty.

It’s never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. Ever worked for hard working people Who want to make a better life. It rewards the lazy and eliminates competition.
I’m sure it functions in less populated and simple societies to a point, but not in a very populous, extremely complicated society like say the USA.
Plus is a person is an admitted socialist and believes in it, perfect for them.
Not for me,. I got to where I am from a very bad place, a very poor place. I have had a very rough but full life. And have worked hard. I want to keep what I have earned. I don’t want higher taxes, I like all the amazing choices I have and I am very suspicious of what would become an even bigger and controlling government than we already have. Maybe I’m selfish. There are people I grew up with who chose not to work hard, and are still where I last saw them and depend on the government, depend on people like me.
There are other things but basically that’s why I think it’s a bad word.
Just my opinion.

Because socialism leads to the loss of freedoms and the loss of economic prosperity.. Socialism sux plain and simple.. It never works in the long term and leads to a Venezuelan or Zimbabwe style collapse..

Because its a lovely pipe dream but in reality would never work . We are the ones stopping it because human nature being what it is we are selfish , greedy people when it comes down to it and never happy no matter how much we have we always want more . If real socialism were to exist we would all have to change our ways because that would mean we would all have to be equal in every way .There would be an end to rich posh people and an end to the haves and have nots etc .That would mean just taking UK as an example the queen and the windsor family living in an ordinary house all working earning an average wage being the average family like everyone else . Nice dream reality no way.

For some of my personal experiences with it (and communism), please read my personal story, which is my Featured story under my Profile. Socialists and communists are some of the most messed up people in the world.

Okay, I see a lot of different understandings of the meaning of socialism. Different definitions. The fact is, I REALLY don't care how you define it, or which version of it you support and which you do not support. Socialism of any stripe is incompatible with the US Constitution, our Bill of Rights, or our historical culture. I want nothing to do with it, I oppose it rigorously, and I will fight it with everything I have. Oh, one more thing -- I do believe in providing a "safety net" to those who no fault of their own are not capable of supporting themselves, but ONLY to those.

Because it’s not democracy.

Many people don't really know the meaning of Socialism. They get their education from talk show hosts.

Because some of us fear big government.

Could it be the millions of ppl that stave to death ... everytime it’s tried?

Because it’s responsible for millions of deaths and misery
It’s a failure
Other than that it’s fine

It’s code for Marxism

Because hardly anyone knows what it means, including people who support it. When a conservative uses it, they mean “anything to the left of Ronald Reagan.”

Socialism is defined as the nationalization of private industry. You can also socialize specific aspects of society. For example, in the US, we have a socialized military and socialized law enforcement.

Media tycoons who control the press and don't like paying either personal or corporate tax have over the last 50 years continually drummed in that socialism is removal of freedom etc...

However most of us on here live in a socialist state in some way or other...

UK NHS is probably the most obvious socialist icon hugely supported by most people. We have state education largely and university education whilst funded through student loans is essentially still direct stare funding. 75% of loans will never be paid back. Recently in the covid-19 pandemic we've seen wholesale socialist policies by a Tory government, paying staff wages, nationalisation of railway companies, direct subsidy to businesses from government to keep going... Hardly free market in any way.

Look through Europe you'll generally find that healthcare is state funded, most railways too, state ownership of companies like German DB railways who incidentally run all freight on UK railways and many buses in UK.

Even the USA has a nationalised railway system AMTRAK.

I grew up in San Francisco before moving to Oregon, and rather hate what it became.
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They don't understand that it's been partially incorporated in most of the world in varying degrees for a very long time. You all have mixed economies.

Lot of people only think in binary. Bad, good..It's easier to appeal to them by demonizing any form of change in a way that associate it to prior failures or evils. They need to feel protected even if the threat is an illusion.

Because 3/4 of the people use it without even knowing what it means, similarly to "antifa/scism", "democracy", "liberal", "leftwing", "leftist", "conservative", and another few.

* Edit: Leaving only the ones that are not understood and perceived as "dirty".

I'm not sure that it is, except to those who are not in favour of publicly funded social safety nets.

Socialism now bears no resemblance to its historical roots in Marxism - but the right love to characterise it as some kind of communist dictatorial agenda. The modern version incorporates democracy. It could still be regarded as having a general policy of "from each according to ability, to each according to need," but this is softened into a form that can work within a re-regulated form of capitalism with a social and environmental conscience. It would regulate to remove the laws that permit psychopathic behaviours in big business. It would not stop companies from making profits, but a greater share would go to the workers who produce that wealth. At least - that's how I understand it.
On the other hand - there are hundreds of forms of socialism, some so divergent that they're not even on the spectrum from centre to far left.

There are right-wing think tanks. I believe they are responsible for the media policies that promote the demonisation of the left and liberal agendas.
They don't work in secret - like conspiracies - but openly, publically.
Some examples include the: American Enterprise Institute, Ludwig von Mises Institute, RAND Corporation, Hoover Institution, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Heartland Institute, Discovery Institute, Acton Institute and many others.
They are funded by big business, international business cartels and private billionaires. They employ top-ranking right-wing intellectuals to do research and come up with ways of promoting capitalist agendas and sabotaging leftist politics.

There are also leftist, centrist and specialist think tanks - but sometimes I think the left are not doing a very good job. We should not sink to the same levels of name calling.
Rather, we should be explaining how the policies work, and showing the examples of success in other countries.

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Because of all the dirty deeds that have been done in its name.

In America it always has been.

It's not.

Because most of the people who throw it around have no idea what it means. It is easy to throw something around as an insult if you don't care about the actual definition.

Lies about freedom and equality on their people.

Because some can't pronounce it right. 🗣️ 🤬

Same time communism did?

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Because the Republicans and anyone else who supports their candidate for President like to use that word to describe anyone who supports the opposition.

America has highjacked & misinterpreted it, for political purposes!!

the spirit of today is to make any word to be dirty.