Social is econimic system again under what ECONOMIC system is it defined under? Yes but when we build a road all citizens own it so yes there is a clear difference in your argument, then a Amish barn raising. One citizen does not decide to build a road, and everyone helps build that road, and that one citizen does no then own that road. So that example kinda missed the point of WE ALL OWN THE ROAD.
Here are some difinitions of social:
pertaining to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or
relations: a social club.
2. seeking or enjoying the companionship of others; friendly; sociable;
gregarious.
3.
of, pertaining to, connected with, or suited to polite or fashionable
society: a social event.
4. living or
disposed to live in companionship with others or in a
community,
rather than in isolation: People are social beings.
5. of or pertaining to
human society, especially as a body divided into classes according to
status: social rank.
see how none of them are economic theories. Now under which ECONOMIC SYSTEM do you define it as?
And I never took a poly sci class, I like to read. I perfer to spend my education money on things that teach me useful things, like how to cure cancer.
Any even if Norway describes it self as Democratic Socialist, they still practice capatilism yet have socialist programs. So pretty much what I said.
Using Social to describe a economic system which it is not does not sound like a well rounded education.
Now i see the problem. every human activity does not pertain to economic, or political science theories. In fact social endeavours usually have nothing to do with politics, or economics. Painting a picture is not commerce, but selling it or buying it is. Looking at a painting is not commerce, but buying a ticket to a museum is. The museum itself is usually NOT a commercial endeavour, but they do use the commerce of ticket sales to finance operations acquisitions and outreach. Many museums are not even owned or funded by the government, many are privately owned and operated. There are even private libraries (some nonprofit and some commercial) which are open to the public, but receive no government funding. Sometimes a road is just a road.
Most things serve many purposes, some quite contradictory. For example, a gun. to the gunsmith, it is commerce, to the soldier it is military, to the homeowner it is security, to the hunter it is food, to the collector it is entertainment, and to the liberal legislator, it is crime. Each is correct but only in context. In your context a road could be considered a socialist project, but only in a very narrow and distorted way. Treated that way, EVERYTHING falls under socialist economic theory, and every action by any government could be labeled as a socialist project. it just doesnt work that way. Thats part of the confusion over socialism, communism and capitalism as theories. Every adherent to each theory can twist and distort every criticism and concern about his personal ideology, deflecting it all with the (yes here it is again) "No True Scotsman Fallacy"" wherein, any critique is rejected because it wasnt REALLY FOR TRUE SHO-NUFF fill in the blank.
Heres a few i have heard in my political science classes for the last 20 years...
North Korea not REALLY socialist, they are a dictatorship
Fascist Italy Not REALLY socialist, they were fascists
Nazi Germany not REALLY socialist, they were "right wing extremists"
People's Republic of China not REALLY socialist, they were Maoists!
Cuba not REALLY socialists, they are Communists
Cuba again... Not REALLY Communists, they are Socialists!
USA not REALLY capitalist, they are plutocratic oligarchs
USA not Really a Republic, we is a Democracy
USA not REALLY a Democracy, we are a Federalist Union of Commonwealths]
It just goes on, and each one claimed they were absolutely correct, and would regurgitate endless news articles, scholarly papers and opinion polls to back it up. (Protip: some of these are both right and wrong , for example, North Korea is a Socialist Dictatorship which is not synonymous with, but is indistinguishable from, a monarchy)
Economics pertains only to economies and their constituent parts, which includes transportation networks, but transportation networks are not and exclusively an economic activity. They only fall into "economics" when they are used for commerce.
roads are used to deliver goods and customers to a market, but they are not part of the market. some markets are accessed exclusively by river, or oceangoing vessels. the river is not part of an economic theory, nor is the ocean, only the market related activities which take place on them is economic. Roads also function as conduits for social interaction, and even military strategy and transport.
Constructing and maintaining a road is important to economic development, but in many rural areas, roads more important as social instruments. Many are built not by the government, but by the people reached by the road, and they are maintained by the individuals whose land they cross. this is called an Easement. Once you get past the area served by federal highways, and state and county roads, easements are pretty much all you find. These roads can be simple dirt tracks, gravel bedded roads or paved throughways, but they are still owned by, and maintained by the land owner, and they do NOT charge people for using them. These rural private roads allow access to the highway system for commerce (taking crops to markets, and conveying purchased goods home) but also serve to facilitate travel (visiting relatives, mail delivery, goin into town fer some ruckus etc...) as well as social interaction between neighbors. They almost always cross the property of several land-owners, and each landowner maintains his own stretch of road. some rural easements serve no commercial purpose at all, and are entirely recreational, leading to popular fishing holes or public river or lake access, or in some rare cases, they are purely ornamental Seriously, a guy once paid me $100 bucks to roll a tractor over and over a short stretch of grass running up to an old barn, to create a dirt two-rut so it would "look more rustic". Other side of the barn had a paved drive. City folks is crazy. The resulting 50 feet of road served no purpose but decoration. Me gettin' paid was commerce though, but it sure wasn't socialism. The Doc don't do shit without that cheddar, homey.
I hope this clears it up.
