A Usenet persona calling itself BCITORGB wrote:

Tovarich Weiser says:
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In socialism, there is no reward for hard work, and the fruits of your
labor are taken from you by the government and are distributed to
others without your input or approval, and without compensation for
your work. All persons in a socialist regime are required (in theory)
to give their all with no expectation of reward for the benefit
of the proletariat.
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What in hell are you talking about?!

Socialism, of course.

This is not to say that a socialist government cannot decide to provide a
dole, or wage, or "redistribution" or whatever, it's that the essential
feature of socialism is that it is not *required* to do so. A Socialist
government may take everything from you without regard for your desires or
needs and give it to someone else "more deserving" than you, and you have
no recourse because nothing "belongs" to you in the first place. Everything
is owned by "the people," including the land you may be working, and it can
be taken and given to someone else at the whim and caprice of the leaders of
the society.

In short, in socialist systems, there is no concept of "private property,"
and thus you have no claim on what you possess.
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Scott Weiser

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