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I’m actually sick of the word “socialism” at this point. It’s become a total buzzword with very little actual meaning. There is a dictionary definition, yes, but every single country, regime, movement, or politician that has used the term has had a different interpretation of it. It is purely economic in nature, and all it has to do with is who owns the economy (and not in the way you might think). This is in opposition to capitalism which is an economic model where the same means of production are owned by private owners who do not necessarily operate the means of Top Smokey The Bear Socialism Shirt production.

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The general idea behind how the USSR/China/North Korea operates is that if the government is democratic, and the workers get to vote in the government democratically, then if the government owns everything the workers own it by proxy. This also ties into how Marxist-Leninists view socialism as a transitionary stage into communism (which, personally, I feel just ends up being an excuse for not quite living up to socialism… But that’s just the perspective of Top Smokey The Bear Socialism Shirt an Anarchist). Now, because it is much closer related than people realize: Anarchism is an ideological opposition to the nature of hierarchy and power within society.

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The general idea being that unless a hierarchy of power within society can be justified in its existence then it must be abolished and replaced with a system of organization that does not require hierarchy. A lot of people mistake the Anarchist political position of the abolition of the state as a “we want chaos” kind of position, but in actuality what Anarchists what by Top Smokey The Bear Socialism Shirt abolishing the state is to create what could be described as a radical direct democracy in its place.

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