This is silly socialist sophistry. Words means things, and socialism specifically means gov't ownership of capital which necessitates authoritarian control of people's economic decisions, which inevitably degenerates into mass violence. Rothbard explains:https://mises.org/library/end-socialism-and-calculation-debate-revisited …
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To call this being "controlled by the community" is a malicious double lie -- the electorate of a typical state does not form a community of people who talk to each other peer-to-peer, and the actual legal control is in the hands of only an extremely small number of officials.
Yes this phrase too is entirely oxymoronic. Like any other property owned by any other organization, there are particular officials who have the legal decision-making authority about its disposal and use, and nobody else.
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We understand you're pretty libertarian. Do you define as such?
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I don't define myself as anything, all such labels are preposterous oversimplifications.
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