• volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    I’m not a socialist

    All firms are mandated to be worker coops

    Pretty sure that qualifies as socialism for most people. Welcome onboard, my friend!

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        3 months ago

        Some people think so. That doesn’t make it a good academic definition. You get into the shitty definition of socialism that Dr. Wolff mocks:

        “When the government that’s a lot of stuff, that’s socialism. And the more stuff it does, the more socialist it gets. And when it does a reeeeeal whole lot of stuff, then that’s communism”

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          3 months ago

          The academic definition would be the systems of the historical Eastern Bloc countries or a hypothetical society that has somehow completely abolished commodity production

          @leftymemes

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          3 months ago

          Rhetorically, it doesn’t matter how I define the term. It matters how people use it.

          The way I would define it is either the systems of historical Eastern Bloc countries or a hypothetical society that has somehow completely abolished commodity production

          @leftymemes