Idealist. It would be easier and more viable to just have the means of production be owned and democratically managed by the proletariat than to share power in the long term with our exploiter without one side or the other losing.
I’ll say it again: I’m talking about tightly regulated capitalism with strong socialist policies.
You cannot have private ownership of the means of production and also worker control of the means of production.
When you say capitalism with lots of socialism that is what we hear, and it is nonsensical.
Two, I don’t believe that communism of any form result in a sense of fairness for anyone. I believe most humans have an innate desire to work to improve their lives, and I don’t believe communism offers the same freedom and opportunities for self improvement through honest work
Historically communism allows for more improvement though. Working class people would be able to take college classes in the evenings for free. Peasant girls went from a future of marriage and housework to being able to be scientists.
It is more easy to motivate yourself to be better at your work when what you're doing benefits everyone than to motivate yourself to be better at your work when what you're doing just benefits some bourgeois fuck.
I believe in capitalism
If you think billionaires are bad but capitalism is good you don't know what capitalism is. You should seriously consider reading some of marx's shorter works like Value Price and Profit and Wage Labor and Capital.
People are easily manipulated.
People are not easy to manipulate. The amount of ads required for political work are immense, what are you talking about? It would be easy enough to prevent manipulation of the public if the US wasn't so dogmatically free speech when it comes to right wing speech.
West Virginia used to be blue back when the democrats would give a fig leaf to organized labor
I dont think the source of disagreement is being more educated, the source of disagreement is that they vote for their and their buddy's interests and not the interests of most people.
There doesn't have to be a conspiracy for this behavior to occur organically. Both parties represent different factions of the bourgeoisie, and different factions want different things but are united in interests common to being bourgeoisie.
Well, I mean, yeah. I love doing me some communism, yum yum. Makes sense that I talk about it a lot when I'm killing time online.
Was there a point to what you said?
Call them woke next lol you're ridiculous
This meme isn't even explicitly socialist it is just class conscious
How is it different?
Ah yes, the anti authoritarian anarchists like the Ukrainian Free State, a military dictatorship that enabled pogroms against Jewish people in their territories.
The marxist leninists were in practice a lot more anti-authoritian" than the anarchists and other "anti-authoritians" of the time.
noted anti-stalinist Khrushchev sent tanks into Hungary
I would also send tanks into Hungary -even if we were close to a peaceful settlement- if I suddenly got reports of soviet government officials and jews being lynched. Revolutions don't start lynching jews. Counter-revolutions do.
This happened a decade after the holocaust in a country that the Soviets failed at denazifying as successfully as other Warsaw pact countries. Hungary was an enthusiastic collaborator in the holocaust. You do the math. The vanguard of the true revolution they were not.