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These things are bound to happen when 80% of the population lives on less than 120$ a month.

Source: Indus Valley Report 2023

And government provides wheat and rice to those people at less than a dollar a month. India is pretty much a socialist country.

what do you mean 'pretty much'? The word 'socialist' is literally in our constitution.

> India is pretty much a socialist country.

I take this as an example that anyone that uses the words "socialist", "capitalist" and "fascist" in derogatory terms doesn't have a very good understanding of what these words mean.

What makes you think he's used it in a derogatory way?

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