If you don't like socialism, then your complaint should be with Republicans who overplay "socialism"

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28. Putin is not a socialist. There is no irony.

Socialism is a social and political system that has a wide range of positions but mostly deals with collective ownership over the means of production meaning that groups (government, co-ops, workers) manage the ownership of companies or vehicles of production of goods as units and share equitably in the profits.

Neither Putin, nor the GOP support that. They are for placing ownership and all the benefits into the hands of a small group of very wealthy people. That is not socialism.

What we have to do is not feed into the ignorance about socialism and give the GOP more power to use it as a slur.

Also, collective ownership of the means of production does not mean collective ownership of all things. In an ideal socialist society, you still own your house and car, and the stuff inside. There just isn't someone who owns the entire block of houses and rents to everyone else because their dad left them 10 million dollars.