[skookumchuck]

Ownership rights include the right to enjoy the benefits of ownership. The more rights another has to the profits, the more ownership rights they have.

Therefore, the more taxes that are extracted, the less ownership one has, and the more "communal ownership", i.e., socialistic it is.

[opnitro]

Sure, I don't think many would argue that social democratic schemes are further down the scales to the left. But if we define a system that explicitly exists within the context of supporting privately owned corporations socialist, I feel we've overdefined the term to where it's no longer meaningful.