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Re:Why a Universal Basic Income Would Be a Calamity by cgmg on Sunday August 20, 2017 @06:56PM (#15060649)
"I tend to argue instead for actual socialism over UBI. Socialized health care, public education, infrastructure, etc."

That's not socialism, at all. That's social democracy.

As someone who comes from a country that has actually been ravaged by socialism, there's a world of a difference between the two.

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Re:Why a Universal Basic Income Would Be a Calamity by coldtea on Sunday August 20, 2017 @07:23PM (#15060752)
>As someone who comes from a country that has actually been ravaged by socialism, there's a world of a difference between the two.

Those countries have been ravaged by being run by totalitarian parties that followed a specific Stalinist model

Not by anything specific in socialism itself. Social democracy is still a form of socialism, and until around the first world war there were one and the same (including being championed by the same people).

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