Peterf
Active Member
Socialism began essentially with the Constitution. The Postal Service and the postal road system. The military. There has never been a government that didn't employ socialism.
Oh I see. All you are interested is a cheap little verbal trick. Defining government, any government, all government, as 'socialist'.
I suppose you think you can win this argument, or any other, by setting ever more absurd definitions of the terms used.
If you don't know the meaning of ''socialism'', look it up.
What socialism is has been argued about for a hundred years and more. It's not something one can 'look up'. Most definitions emphasize class-based political models and state ownership of some or all of the means of production and exchange. But no definition I have ever come across suggests that establishing a military force makes a state 'socialist'.