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@nina "socialism" is used for two pretty much opposing things: workers autonomy in the workplace and state control of of the economy.

those advocating the latter will use the former as a shield "see, socialism doesn't have to authoritarian" and the former often let them because if the ridiculous notion that "we have the same goals".

the conflation is helped by a general disdain for economics, the promise of plenty, and democratic ideology "the government is all of us".