Can you be a socialist and support income and consumption taxes?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Of course. Only a very peculiar interpretation of Marxism that's very orthodox in some respects and very heterodox in others would come to the conclusion that income taxes are anti-socialist. In reality, a progressive income tax was one of the first demands of socialist parties as they formed across Europe, and remains one of the primary tools of advancing the material interests of the working class.

Now, consumption taxes are regressive and there's an argument to be made that socialists ought to oppose them, but I'm not necessarily sure I'd go that far.