I disagree, socialist institutions or services can still exist within a capitalist government, even if it is piecemeal. There doesn’t have to be a threshhold to pass for some aspect to be considered socialism.
To expand upon you: examples of such institutions or policies would be free healthcare, universal basic income, but also places like libraries. You could even call (financial) support for housing & children, as well as progressive taxes socialist - despite the system in which they exist being capitalist.
And often times it’s capitalists implementing (slightly) social policies to take arguments away from their opposition.
Germany has the oldest socialized healthcare system in the world (and it shows its age) because Otto von Bismarck needed to take that talking point away from the left.
I disagree, socialist institutions or services can still exist within a capitalist government, even if it is piecemeal. There doesn’t have to be a threshhold to pass for some aspect to be considered socialism.
To expand upon you: examples of such institutions or policies would be free healthcare, universal basic income, but also places like libraries. You could even call (financial) support for housing & children, as well as progressive taxes socialist - despite the system in which they exist being capitalist.
And often times it’s capitalists implementing (slightly) social policies to take arguments away from their opposition.
Germany has the oldest socialized healthcare system in the world (and it shows its age) because Otto von Bismarck needed to take that talking point away from the left.