manifold
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In another thread, an argument is being made that social welfare isn't socialism because it doesn't meet the narrow defintion that in a socialist economy, the government ('the state' or 'the people') 'owns' the means of production. Is that nothing more than splitting hairs? A government that can impose high taxes and draconian regulations on the means of production is essentially in control of said means. So is the difference between controlling and owning the means of production worth anything more that 'winning' a meaningless academic argument on the internet?