I’ve observed it to be a common trait of Socialists to claim EVERTHING as socialistic in nature as a way to disallow the legitimacy of any other system.
Time and again I’ve pointed out that anything that humans may have come up with at times and places for reasons that have nothing to do with socialism means that those things cannot be deemed socialistic.
This includes professional armies, public education, higher education, police, fire fighters, retirement systems, and even forms of welfare.
In practice about the ONLY things that are uniquely socialistic has been the modern gulag state and imposing harsh conditions and even slavery on people in the name of helping to bring about the socialistic ideal.
Reeducation camps too are genuinely socialistic.
Fascism, socialism and communism eventually make bloody stumps of the cultures and peoples that they consume because the focus of these systems is ultimately what is good for government, what advances the power and preeminence of government, and the stability of those who govern (their fortunes and their prestige).
The communist clowns of the world might protest that communism is meant to be without the state but that was a form of deception played on the febril feeble minds of communists since the early days. That it is a lie can be demonstrated by the reception that Marx gave Darwin’s ideas, supposedly saying it gave a basis in naturalistic thought for his views. Why? Well, if there can be natural selection then so too can their be unnatural, the ruthless imposition of a kind of society unnatural to human nature until some point in some distant future when human nature has been replaced with something that can live in the fantasies of Marxists. The gulag States were not an abberation of Marxism, not an abuse of it, but were inescapably the heart of what would have to happen to create a new sort on men-like people to replace Man. The Revolution never ends because it is a Revolution against human nature itself.
Even Lysenkoism fell not far from the tree, for if by the power of the all powerful State the Marxist thought to remake Man, what it means to be human, then why not remake nature too?
Look at the Left wanting to regulate every nuance in society that isn’t having sex, for that alone is all that is really untouchable and the only “Liberty” that matters, with grave concern. These jackasses are conditioned like Pavlovian dogs to drool after the end of Man, the rise of Marxist mannish things, and the core of Cultural Marxism is the destruction of all that is, including human nature, so that the real Marxists can sweep everything else that isn’t them away.
Very true. I recently read a post on our neighborhood's NextDoor feed. In it the person claimed that all the following were socialist: Police and Fire Departments, the Military, Public parks, Public libraries, Public roads, and Public schools.
Chekov’s Russian Misconceptions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC6W8J0j8Co