Failing: “Socialism” or *Actual* Socialism?
In response to someone who claims that the possible dismantling of the NHS is proof that “socialism always fails”:
First, you have to define socialism. Most likely the response will be something along the lines of “no private property” or something resembling communism, both of which are incorrect. Then you have to see if the UK even practices socialism (they do not; they are a social democracy, which is significantly different), and whether the disassembling of a medical system backed by the government by Conservatives who just got into power after more than a decade is the same thing as ‘socialism failing.” Then you’d need to define “fail”: fail entirely? Leading tot eh deaths of thousands? Or simply losing popularity? Finally you have to prove that socialism, in any practical form has “failed”.
If citizens in the UK oppose the dismantling of the NHS, then socialism hasn’t failed; the Conservatives’ chances of maintaining power has.