Message from @The Big Oof

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2018-09-11 18:57:58 UTC  

that is an amazing analogy

2018-09-11 18:58:11 UTC  

Well, a lot of people are misinformed as to what socialism is, because of people like Bernie Sanders

2018-09-11 18:58:35 UTC  

itll be easier for me to simply read up and understand directly what falls under socialism, because I may have just been living under a rock when it comes to economics my whole life

2018-09-11 18:58:42 UTC  

It's not even a "b- but it's not true socialism" scenario, he doesn't have the same end goals as a socialist, and if he does, he's not public about them

2018-09-11 18:59:16 UTC  

Also wasnt bernie part of a communist club or legitimately socialist club at one point, I remember that being a thing.

2018-09-11 18:59:23 UTC  

in his youth of course

2018-09-11 18:59:35 UTC  

when I say "true socialist", I mean those times when socialism gets implemented and they shout "but but but it wasn;t REAL socialism"

2018-09-11 18:59:40 UTC  

when it fails

2018-09-11 18:59:40 UTC  

that was a long time ago does it matter

2018-09-11 18:59:57 UTC  

It probably is true, he praised Castro is, the 80s? I think

2018-09-11 19:00:01 UTC  

But it was a long time ago

2018-09-11 19:00:02 UTC  

real socialism = successful socialism lol

2018-09-11 19:00:09 UTC  

Which doesn't exist

2018-09-11 19:00:24 UTC  

that's why it was never real socialism

2018-09-11 19:00:44 UTC  

They're technically correct when they say that it never was

2018-09-11 19:00:50 UTC  

Because socialism never was and never will be

2018-09-11 19:00:57 UTC  

exactly

2018-09-11 19:01:02 UTC  

It's a fantasy

2018-09-11 19:03:20 UTC  

So much like communism its only an intellectual unicorn fantasy

2018-09-11 19:03:32 UTC  

Socialism is always redefined when they realize it doesn't work

2018-09-11 19:03:44 UTC  

Like how Dengists claim socialism is "eliminating poverty"

2018-09-11 19:03:57 UTC  

When they have to justify capitalist policies in China

2018-09-11 19:04:09 UTC  

"destroying all class barriers"

2018-09-11 19:04:19 UTC  

that's a nice definition that can't really be met

2018-09-11 19:11:06 UTC  

there cant be a class if everyone is equally poor

2018-09-11 19:11:33 UTC  

imo class isn't just how much money you have

2018-09-11 19:11:43 UTC  

as far as I know communism drives towards anarchy, which is legitimately a method of exacting equality because if there is no structure and everyone is dirt poor in primitivism and anarchy then well there is no economic class

2018-09-11 19:12:05 UTC  

and true that, there can be many ways to define a class in society, intelectual capacity, practical skills, physicla prowess.

2018-09-11 19:12:21 UTC  

and id argue that those clases do exist, but to a lesser extent than say economic

2018-09-11 19:12:33 UTC  

yeah pure communism is anarchy

2018-09-11 19:12:44 UTC  

but the goal is not to make everyone dirt poor and primitive

2018-09-11 19:43:04 UTC  

Post labor society

2018-09-11 19:43:10 UTC  

Is the end goal of communism

2018-09-11 19:43:39 UTC  

huh

2018-09-11 19:43:42 UTC  

didn't know that

2018-09-11 19:43:52 UTC  

not primitivism then ig

2018-09-11 19:50:30 UTC  

Socialism is the belief that men are inherently good and equal. That it is the social stratification that causes the evils in society. So if men shared the means of production then inequality would be eliminated which would create a good society.

Social democracy tries to do the same, but by redistributing wealth through social programs.

2018-09-11 20:00:32 UTC  

Haven't I already told you repeatedly in extreme detail why this analysis of socialism is completely wrong?

2018-09-11 20:01:28 UTC  

Socialism is not "everyone is equal", this is far from a consensus in socialist theory. Socialism is collective ownership of the MOP. Even the phrase 'from each according to their ability, to each according to their need' strongly implies not everyone is equal.

2018-09-11 20:02:31 UTC  

You're confusing historical materialism that leads to the perceived injustices of capitalism with the theory of socialism itself.

2018-09-11 20:04:14 UTC  

@εïз irma εïз you haven't told me that