But "socialism" is a scary word
But "socialism" is a scary word
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Things I hate were present where I live through half of USSR and then till now, and replaced things even scarier present since the revolution.
Tell me it's capitalism, mofo, I beg you.
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USSR had a state capitalist economy
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I fully agree. So when you are against capitalism, what is your alternative that doesn't devolve into state capitalism?
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That's something you can write a book about.
In my opinion it has to come from a bottom up movement, that puts emphasis on the sort of types of organization a socialist movement ultimately aims for.
The Leninists tried to disconnect the means and the ends of the movement, using the tools of the bourgeoisie to try and build a new system, which failed.
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The USSR moved out of State Capitalism with the end of the NEP. It is technically correct that they had a State Capitalist economy, but they moved on to a traditional Socialist economy relatively early on.
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Things you hate? How can it be explained as capitalism if you won't say what it is.
You act like there was never a guy named Karl Marx who proved this stuff, and debunked many myths about the economy, like 150+ years ago. It isn't just a random thing like a superstition. In fact believing capitalism isnt responsible is almost a superstition.
Wages are flat while production has skyrocketed the last 50 years, a little longer than I've been alive. The system produces a few rich people at one end and a bunch of poor people at the other, that's what it is meant to do, it's what it does. It isn't just an economic system, its the state and media as well.
People aren't just blaming all their problems on capitalism like some petulant child. There are causes that are very clear and some more hidden, but its no secret and hasn't been for a pretty long time.
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