Socialize Offshore Oil?

[Sunstone]

It seems that the amount of opportunity could be argued, but I'll skip that.

You're skipping the core of the issue, of course.

 

[Mathematician]

I have no idea what percentage of the rich inherited their wealth, but I see that as a good thing. The ability to pass wealth on to one's children is a motivator.
I wouldn't bother to work hard if I knew the government would get it all. Once again, I've no use for government enforced equality....I want opportunity for those who wish to use it.
Btw, every wealthy person I personally know was born poor or middle class.

Socialism covers a milieu of different ideological currents; anarchism, libertarian socialism, democratic socialism, "Stalinism," etc. Socialists foremost want equality of opportunity, too. Social liberals are not socialists.

 

[Darkness]

Socialism covers a milieu of different ideological currents; anarchism, libertarian socialism, democratic socialism, "Stalinism," etc. Socialists foremost want equality of opportunity, too. Social liberals are not socialists.

Social liberals come from an entirely different strain of political thought, with the likes of T.H. Green and John Rawls. It is a revision of classical liberals (basically akin to what we consider libertarianism, today). The main difference being that of expansive and negative liberty. There is some debate about it, but I would not consider Social Liberalism to be a left-wing ideology, at least as far as the economy is concerned. It is more centrist.