Comments by "BlackFlagsNRoses" (@blackflagsnroses6013) on "Dissecting The ‘IDW’ w/Michael Brooks of TMBS u0026 Majority Report" video.
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Dooya Punk So I got to reading your comments and just like the conservative “intelligentsia” you have no clue what Socialism is, not just you but most others on this thread if not all. If you allow me to explain:
Socialism is the ideology of socioeconomics, and all political beliefs in the pursuit of the ideology, for a post-Capitalist classless social organization. Where the factors of production are by any form owned socially by the workers.
Forms of social ownership include:
Public ownership in which the government subsidizes an industry or institution meant for the benefit or free enjoyment of the public. Such as nationalization of certain goods and services where the public partakes.
Worker’s collectives/ worker’s coops, in which the worker’s are directly in control of and democratically run industries in associative relations.
Common/ collective ownership which is a staple of Communism. In which the community own the factors of production and productivity in common, with all sharing the produce and goods and services.
Socialism is broad with many branches or schools of thought. From Statist to Anarchist, Authoritarian to Libertarian. The belief that Socialism is State ownership stems form Marxist-Leninism which became the most prominent Socialist revolutionary political movement. However as I said, Marxist-Leninism is but one strain of Socialism, and even Marxism. Not all Socialists are Marxists, much less Marxist-Leninists. Since this particular branch lead to State Capitalism it is rejected and criticized by all other branches of Socialism as a failure. Even as the revolution was occurring Socialists were highly critical of Lenin and his politics, such as Emma Goldman who was a Libertarian Marxist and Council Communist. A more democratic and decentralized school of Marxism. Lenin himself got rid of the many Socialists who weren’t Leninists and rejected them as “infantiles of the left.”
If you’d like a further discussion and any questions about Socialism and what it is, or it’s rich historical development please ask. You may be surprised. Like did you know that there are Socialists that aren’t anti-markets, we’re just anti-capitalists. Market-based economies aren’t synonymous with Capitalism, which is a mode of production. Just like Socialism isn’t a synonym for State control or planned/command economies. I mean Anarchism arose as a branch of Socialism. It is utterly anti-authoritarian and anti-Statist. Socialism is even informed by Classical Liberalism. Such as Jean Jacques-Rousseau or John Stuart Mill who advocated worker’s coops and rejected capitalist employer-employee relations.
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