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Plainglasswindows supporting a socialist economy or socioeconomics. Meaning you want to end the capital tyranny on labor. That is to say end wage labor and private ownership of the commons and means of production. Socializing the economy isn’t solely State ownership, that’s the authoritarian State Socialist route in which supposedly the government represents the working class. The original socialists were libertarians, meaning direct worker’s associations, coops, and self-management. The means of production in the direct hands of the workers, aka industrial democracy.
To be a socialist means you want the end of usury, the State monopolies of rent, interest, and profit. These usuries are only possible due to the State capitalist system. As much as capitalists like to claim they support free markets they don’t, they support markets dominated by Capital interests, and government protection and privileges for the property class. Capitalism needs the majority of people to be property less and so sell their labor. This is what I mean, to be a leftist you must be against a Statist system of capital rule.
Neoliberalism was an excuse for capitalism. Classical liberal economics is in fact the precursor to socialism. From Adam Smith, to David Ricardo, Thomas Hodgskin, John Stuart Mill etc... the labor theory of value was developed. These classical liberals also supported worker coops as proper of free societies over capitalist firms. As Free Market Socialist Benjamin Tucker put it:
“The economic principles of Modern Socialism are a logical deduction from the principle laid down by Adam Smith in the early chapters of his Wealth of Nations,—namely, that labor is the true measure of price. But Adam Smith, after stating this principle most clearly and concisely, immediately abandoned all further consideration of it to devote himself to showing what actually does measure price, and how, therefore, wealth is at present distributed. Since his day nearly all the political economists have followed his example by confining their function to the description of society as it is, in its industrial and commercial phases. Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be. Half a century or more after Smith enunciated the principle above stated, Socialism picked it up where he had dropped it, and in following it to its logical conclusions, made it the basis of a new economic philosophy.”
That said you could do this two ways, a socialist market system, or communism where there are no markets and the commune distributed goods as needed freely.
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