Centralization is what socialism /is/ minus your dreams about some lofty goals that have never been achieved.
> He has nothing to do with socialism
What you do trumps what you call yourself or what wiki calls you.
> I've lived in a communist economy without noticing.
Not full communist but there are significant socialist components in the western economies, usually the sectors that don't work, and yeah, it's not really to your credit that you somehow failed to notice that education, healthcare, military and so on aren't capitalist.
Central banking is, at least since the bailouts, full on monetary communism. It's infuriating to me that people just refuse to learn the first thing about this system.
> I must have missed the proletarian expropriation somehow.
You clearly haven't been following the news from the Netherlands.
> Jokes aside, it's interesting how people like to call the current system socialist when it doesn't work, capitalist when it does.
When socialism doesn't work, capitalism get's the blame. Actually it's even worse than that, capitalism is just a blanket label for anything bad, regardless of the underlying dynamics.
You are conflating centralization with socialism. Mario Draghi is the centralist banker behind QE and he is a fervent neoliberal. He has nothing to do with socialism.
> This is the Soviet Union playbook to a T, except they would always blame "wreckers" or reactionaries.
Crazy how distracted I've been lately, I've lived in a communist economy without noticing. I must have missed the proletarian expropriation somehow.
Jokes aside, it's interesting how people like to call the current system socialist when it doesn't work, capitalist when it does.