What's the deal with Socialism?

[El Kabong]

I think that socialism, like any ideology, is dangerous when taken to extremes. Totalitarianism, regardless of the mask it wears, is always a bad thing.

I do believe strongly in the value of social democracy though, for reasons I am sure we have discussed a thousand times over.

What exactly do you like about it? And have the things you liked ever been sustainable or successfully used by a government in real life?

The Socialist idea of constant revolution, to me is ridiculous and if you're constantly revolting #1 You can't make serious progress and #2 At a certain moment you turn from a revolution of ideas to just pure blood lust like France did in their revolution. Of course that isn't ALL socialists just the "shit stirrers" like a Lenin or Guavera.