"Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
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