andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (02/27/87)
Dave Brewer has now equated "socialism" (read social democracy)
in Sweden with "socialism" (read Communism) in China. To me this is
laughable. There is about as much distance between Communism and
social democracy as there is between Fascism and social democracy.
"Socialism" has been used, in its time, to mean so many different
things that very few people use it as a stand-alone term now. The
main people who use it in this way are people who want to equate
anything left of the Liberals with communism, for their own purposes.
On the other hand, Brewer's postings are usually so muddled that
I may just have been confused by his latest postings.
--J.