Is Socialism a good thing?

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The thing is most people support mixed economies. After all, even Lenin introduced the NEP which amounted to proto-Dengism and most "free market" leaders like Reagan and Thatcher used the power of state planning when they needed. If you look at most countries that have rapidly grown or reduced poverty levels, you'll see similar patterns: the Asian Tigers are all good examples of polities that used the free market and statist methods in tandem t enormous success, as was France under dirigisme and the American School/National System.

In general, I think that wealth and the means of generating wealth should be distributed amongst the population. I will leave it at that, but to note that many of the dreams of neoliberalism's early days was to achieve something similar - creating a "nation of shareholders" for instance.