The Concept of Socialism

What is Socialism?
For the most part, Socialism is the concept of the means of production being owned by the community with some government support. Socialism has certain concepts of Communism, and other concepts of Capitalism in a certain way. Socialism has taken many forms throughout history. Socialism once had taken a Soviet-style Communism and brought forth Latin-America dictatorships, Finland and Denmark are a couple examples of a socialist type government. Paul Brians claimed that "'Socialism' is an exceedingly fuzzy term used to label an extraordinarily wide array of political and economic beliefs,". right below is the flag of Sweden, a socialist country.

What form of Socialism did Sanders prefer?
Sanders believes that our government should aggressively use taxes and social programs to limit inequality and in exchange, provide benefits for everyone without charge like health care, day care, and college education to name a few. But he also doesn't reject private enterprise. Sanders claims "I don't believe government should own the means of production,". He also claims "I do believe the middle class and the working families who produce the wealth deserve a fair deal.". However, Sanders is not a socialist, but claims to be a democratic socialist. the word "democratic" is appropriate in this situation because socialism has not come about as a result of free and fair elections.

Sources:
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theweek.com

The Atlantic