This. I want a shift towards socialism not because I think socialism is perfect but because change is good. Our system, whether it’s capitalism, crony capitalism or some other term I’m too stupid to know, is stagnant.
I mean what people often get wrong about Socialism is that you have to 100% adopt every kind of publicly held property to be a socialist. It comes in a lot of different forms some of which we take for granted as normal. One has to remember that the guy who coined the phrase was writing from perspective a hundred years before things like socialized medicine, municipal fire and waste services were an idea. Private sector was practically everything and most places were still high on very extreme early versions of assistance like workhouse systems. There’s a lot of writing that has been done in the interm regarding socialism but the basics are always to empower the sphere of publicly held wealth. It’s easy to get disenchanted with something that’s out of control and easy to forget that there are strengths in that system too. What determines the weed in the garden is sometimes just the thing that needs more pruning than other plants.
This. I want a shift towards socialism not because I think socialism is perfect but because change is good. Our system, whether it’s capitalism, crony capitalism or some other term I’m too stupid to know, is stagnant.
I mean what people often get wrong about Socialism is that you have to 100% adopt every kind of publicly held property to be a socialist. It comes in a lot of different forms some of which we take for granted as normal. One has to remember that the guy who coined the phrase was writing from perspective a hundred years before things like socialized medicine, municipal fire and waste services were an idea. Private sector was practically everything and most places were still high on very extreme early versions of assistance like workhouse systems. There’s a lot of writing that has been done in the interm regarding socialism but the basics are always to empower the sphere of publicly held wealth. It’s easy to get disenchanted with something that’s out of control and easy to forget that there are strengths in that system too. What determines the weed in the garden is sometimes just the thing that needs more pruning than other plants.