Message from @Egoy

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2018-10-29 13:39:11 UTC  

your argument is about libertarian socialism, I don't know much about libertarian socialism

2018-10-29 13:39:33 UTC  

yes because you have representatives representing the wants of a collective

2018-10-29 13:39:43 UTC  

lol

2018-10-29 13:39:48 UTC  

there are no representatives lol

2018-10-29 13:39:51 UTC  

so wait youre a socialist now?

2018-10-29 13:39:56 UTC  

it's direct democracy at its best

2018-10-29 13:40:04 UTC  

yes, I am now, I used to be a rightist

2018-10-29 13:40:11 UTC  

and believed in capitalism

2018-10-29 13:40:52 UTC  

are you against markets completely?

2018-10-29 13:40:59 UTC  

no

2018-10-29 13:41:04 UTC  

markets are still needed

2018-10-29 13:41:26 UTC  

until central planning is more superior than market forces

2018-10-29 13:42:11 UTC  

lol democratic socialism advocates for state intervention to address social inequalities and state interventions aimed at suppressing the economic contradictions of capitalism

2018-10-29 13:42:35 UTC  

you remove power from the individual when you afford more power to a centralized bureaucracy lol

2018-10-29 13:42:47 UTC  

central planning has already been tried though

2018-10-29 13:43:10 UTC  

and it cannot compete with a price based market economy

2018-10-29 13:43:27 UTC  

why would there be state intevantion under socialism? there are no representatives under socialism, it's direct democracy at its purest.

2018-10-29 13:43:37 UTC  

@Egoy because computing was not advanced enough

2018-10-29 13:44:01 UTC  

prices are the most direct and efficient way resources can be allocated

2018-10-29 13:44:47 UTC  

state intervention exists by way of democratic socialism. you even said this is a vehicle to attain "true socialism"

2018-10-29 13:44:54 UTC  

there will always be state intervention under these conditions

2018-10-29 13:45:05 UTC  

Well under socialism, "market forces" would be allocated by supercomputers, read Paul cockshott for that, he described it when he published papers about the socialist calculation debate

2018-10-29 13:46:17 UTC  

@Egoy under socialism, the state is under the whip of the people lol, so "state intervention" would be a baseless argument tbh, when the workers own the means of production

2018-10-29 13:46:40 UTC  

with 21st century technology, central planning is actually feasable (to a extent)

2018-10-29 13:47:37 UTC  

Well, at least you understand the basic concepts of socialism

2018-10-29 13:48:21 UTC  

thats nice we have socialists that want to engage in debate. its sorta sad thought itll probably never work out

2018-10-29 13:48:44 UTC  

discord socialists are okay

2018-10-29 13:49:03 UTC  

YouTube socialists are edgy elementary schoolers who think that the hammer and sickle is kewl

2018-10-29 13:49:35 UTC  

many people falsely associate it as a alternative

2018-10-29 13:50:05 UTC  

i mean if literally only technology is the barrier to full on socialism why hasnt any other coutnry done it?

2018-10-29 13:50:09 UTC  

if its so clear?

2018-10-29 13:50:33 UTC  

nordic model still employs markets. china has large privately own sectors

2018-10-29 13:51:27 UTC  

Well, socialism can only be established when the working class is educated enough about it or when the alienation of said class is reached to an extent, capitalism is a transitionary ideology and a global system as well, socialism is a global system

2018-10-29 13:52:00 UTC  

the transition to socialism is inevitable, no matter what the timescale is.

2018-10-29 13:52:47 UTC  

it's any ideology, like feudalism and capitalism, capitalism would fall when the circumstances call for it.

2018-10-29 13:53:18 UTC  

Cosma Shalizi has a good essay on why supercomputers wont be the only solution to figuring out the economic calculation problem

2018-10-29 13:53:48 UTC  

Well about this economic calculation, yes, I shall explain more about it

2018-10-29 13:54:02 UTC  

so in a capitalist society, there are free markets

2018-10-29 13:54:15 UTC  

in a hypothetical socialist economy, its done by Central planning.

2018-10-29 13:54:57 UTC  

computers would evaluate and input and output data, and thus relevant amounts of production is allocated to each sector of industry.

2018-10-29 13:55:24 UTC  

the free market, however successful, operates on the principles of profit and produces immense amounts of waste.