Socialism is often misdefined. Socialism is nothing more, and nothing less, than workers' ownership of the means of production. Capitalism is nothing more, and nothing less, than a ruling class's ownership of the means of production. In Canada, and especially in the United States, socialism is frequently misdefined. Misdefinitions of these terms are often even taught in high schools; with socialism always being associated with more government and free services, and capitalism with less government and less free services. This is quite wrong, as many forms of socialism would mean less government, such as anarchism and market socialism. (Even Marxism, which has historically led to massive bureaucracies and the exponential enlarging of the state apparatus, holds the abolition of the state as its ultimate goal.) On the same note, there are forms of capitalism necessitating larger government, such as fascism and Francoism.
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