Quibble: Socialism doesn't refer to a level of government control, merely to a level of economic equality. It would be difficult to say all fascist governments are socialist. And on the other hand, anarchism is sometimes libertarian socialism. I would fix this but I don't know the actual term...maybe despotism suffices, but it has a lot of connotations associated therewith.
Maybe I'm confused, but I always thought
SocialisM was a system of government. The traditional (academic) definition of 'socialism' has it that the state ought to own all the means of production. (Ordinary folks in the
UnitedStates think this is what 'communism' means, but 'communism' refers to the final, ideal socialist state, one of
AnarchY, in which the state has withered away and SocialEquality
?, or whatever you'd like to call it has been achieved. Remember, it used to be the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 'Socialist' was not a euphemism.) The word expressing total economic equality, I suppose, is SocialEquality
? or EqualityOfOutcome
? (as opposed to EqualityOfOpportunity
?). The word for the view that we ought to achieve SocialEquality
? is EgalitarianisM
?. --
LarrySanger
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