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Sweden is a socialist state, and a family is a commune.

And the implied threat socialist / communist revolution was part of the deal, but it isn't that simple.

Elsewhere on HN people have been criticized for what's been called a knee-jerk reaction to socialist ideas.

Back to our subject, the pay scale that this business owner proposed is not actually socialist much less communist.

It's laughable that this being marketed as edgy socialist living when it's just a big apartment with some nice branding.

If a sizable number of Libertarian Nutjobs were there to fight with the Socialist Nutjobs, they'd probably be better off.

As someone who actually lived in a socialist country (the one that started the whole socialism business:), take it from me.

Like in Poland, Eastern Germany and several other countries, it was socialist.

Or in socialist circles it signifies state fraternal ties ala Brezhnev.

Everywhere where more socialist approaches were tried it failed.

I've never heard of this (socialist) guy.

> I'd like to consider coders as less calculating and more socialist Heh.

Under those definitions, isn't most of "socialist Europe" not really socialist?

I'll throw in the response that the "socialist" countries of Europe are socialist to varying degrees, and I don't think most of them actually consider themselves socialist.

Is everyone afraid to be labelled "socialist" and thereby disqualified if suggesting something worker-friendly?

Yes, the "Liberal" party in Australia are about as "liberal" as the "National Socialist German Workers' Party" were "socialist".

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist.

Socialist parties in Western Europe had no clue about what they were wishing for.