Socialism is a modern form of communism, without the gulags and revolutions. They are more subtle, but the goals are the same.
The destruction of the individual.
The methodologies, of dehumanization, moral relativism, and defeatism.
Was Thomas Paine a socialist? I hardly think so. But he did advocate a safety net. There is a role for government services. Saying that, does that make me a socialist?
-- What is the revisionist movement?
The modern socialist movement, as distinguished from communism, had its origin largely in the revisionist movement of the late 19th century. The worsening condition of the proletariat, or workers, and the class war predicted by Marx for Western Europe had not come about. Many socialist thinkers began to doubt the indispensability of revolution and to revise other basic tenets of Marxism. Led by the German writer Eduard Bernstein, they declared that socialism could best be attained by reformist, parliamentary, and evolutionary methods, including the support of the bourgeoisie.
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