Quote Originally Posted by Steppe Merc

And I can't explain socalism, as I'm not sure I understand it myself. I said "probably socialism" as I believe that is closest to what my views are from what little I understand, but I'm not sure.
It all depends on how you define socialism. Is any government interference in the market socialism? Then the USA is a socialist country. The fed sets interest rates, the government takes in taxes and spends them on social programs, etc. All nations are socialist to some degree if one defines it as such, and I believe we should. The end of marxist socialism is of course the elimination of private property, but other forms of Socialism, such as the evolutionary forms one sees in many European countries, mix capitalism with socialism. I don't really see any country that has progressed beyond hunter/gatherer stage that is or has been wholly socialist or wholly capitalist, and I'm not even sure about the hunter/gatherers.