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Re:My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starv... by randiantech on Monday July 18, 2016 @06:17PM (#12118356)
I was referring socialism as a society where state does not allow private property (at least to a major extent), and violates individual human rights in favor of collective ones.
Re:My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starv... by astrodust on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @02:13PM (#12123607)
You're confusing "socialism" with "communist". Socialist societies do not, as a rule, limit ownership of private property. Any that do are usually socialist and something else, like totalitarian or communist.

Likewise a socialist state does not necessarily limit individual freedoms. Communist regimes have, but they're also totalitarian, so which philosophy is to blame is sometimes hard to pin down.

Modern communist societies have also relaxed these restrictions significantly, though there were times when everything was forced communal.