Collectivism isn't socialism.
Combining voluntarily with others is not socialism.
Socialism involves believing nobody has rights to their own product, labor, money, trade, skills, and so on.
Huge difference
Completely fair. I'm being far too loose with words. I attempted to separate socialism from its marxist/politically-charged roots by emphasizing a little 's', but, collectivism is a "cleaner" word.
That's a good way to make the distinction.
I think the problem is constant conflation by the people who actually support it. Language on all sides is constantly co-opted and made vague and confusing.
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