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I don’t hate socialism.
I hate socializing.
Ghisline Maxwell’s dad published our textbooks
It’s true.
A lot of people are capitalists when it comes to chipping in but are socialists when it comes to getting a hand out
Obviously, this is Russina propaganda. They are jealous of our freedom and prosperity. This is just a try to confuse us into becoming gay communists, so our military degrades and they can use their Mexican and Canadian proxy cells to take over our god-given country.
And all the bad consequences they told you would result from it are pretty much what capitalism is doing all the time.
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Had an exchange that went like
“The workers don’t know how to run the business”
“Did the owner tell you that?”
“… shit.”
I’ve worked for some small businesses that the owners themselves could not be trusted to run operations without fucking everything up.
Size of organizations really is an important factor. For small-medium businesses, the owner probably needs to have the skills to operate things themselves, for medium-to-large the owners skills set changes to people managment (see the Peter Principal). Then you get to the places where the CEOs job is less managing people but setting directives at the request of the board and being the cult of personality/fall-guy for the investors.
Its that last one where I get why it works that way, but its baffling how an organization gets there without someone asking if thats a bad idea.
These were auto shops with 8-15 employees, the owners had started the business when you wrote appointments on a desk calendar and there were three oil filters on the shelf, one for Chevy, one for Chrysler and one for Ford. Ask them to make an appointment or order the correct oil filter for a 2016 Kia Sedona was expecting too much.
Also workers don’t have to run the business, they can elect / delegate someone to do that.
If that owners managerial skills are truly necessary for the business’ survival then they should have no problem explaining that to their fellow workers and getting elected to manage. They just won’t get all the profit…
What’s more depressing than socialist architecture? Homelessness and starvation in a land with plenty.
you don’t find children dying of exposure because they refuse to put those little hands to use inspiring?
May I add the “owning vast media conglomerate mega-phone allowing the yacht owner to blast said explanation to the entire world” part?
I feel like capitalism with strong regulation and social safety nets is the way to go tbh. Good laws that allow for the thriving of coops and stuff. It’s just kinda hard to maintain that without a recent memory of a cataclysmic war, ig.
Terms like Capitalism and Socialism mean different things to different people. Yes, there are official or academic definitions you could reference. I’d argue that the larger movement of socialism is less about a well-defined prescription of how to run a society and more about criticism of capitalism, its consequences, and finding better alternatives. It’s about diluting the power of the wealthy (the capitalist or owner class, those who are hoarding the power and wealth) as much as possible and using democracy to distribute that power among the working classes to create a more fair and just society.
What aspects of capitalism make you feel it is a better way to organize society?
What aspects of socialism make you feel it is inferior?
we are in an manmade mass extinction event.
so capitalism where capital doesn’t bestow social power. maybe the capital should be owned by the people so it can’t be exploited against them.
The people explaining it to me: no yacht but username@lemmy.ml
It is a pity, because socialism doesn’t need to be what Marxist Leninists get a hard-on for.
You don’t have to have a centralised hierarchical system where the workers are but “considered” instead of having democratic control.
And they’ll do it with a straight face.
Me personally, I think it the workers don’t have control over society, it’s not socialism.
No, they hate “the other” would get treated kindly like them. There are some vengeful/racist garbage that have this “out group” damning thing, which sets us all into the pain with high ass premiums and shit. They paint over their rationalization as “rugged individualism,” but it’s basically “no, <out group> doesn’t deserve the services that I should get.”
And yes, above.
I personally hate socialism because I was born in a socialist country and had a shitty childhood. Inb4 someone from hexbear or lemmygrad explaining me that my experience is not valid because it was “not real socialism”.
All those versions have the same problems if horrible, greedy people are at the helm.
Capitalism under an oppressive ruling class would have 99% not owning anything, and necessities priced out of reach.
Why does it not actually being socialism not bother you?
Could say the same about “not actually capitalism”.
I see, you don’t care to engage with the inaccuracy of the claim but, instead, choose to deflect.
It doesn’t have to be Laissez-faire capitalism to be capitalism. Fascism with red trim isn’t socialism. Hope that helps.
I was born in a socialist country and had a shitty childhood
Imagine your politician showing up at the Ford dealership telling you you’ve been cut off. You can’t buy another Ford F-150 King Ranch they say. You look up at the American flag and it is red with yellow stars.
