• @disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    08 months ago

    Socialism does not need to be regulated by a government. It’s a form of economy. However, we currently socialize many industries in a capitalist nation, and by socializing more industries, we can improve the lives of poor people at the expense of the wealthy, effectively keeping capitalism more equitable.

    • @DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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      8 months ago

      It’s okay to be a social democrat, buddy, welfare states are perfectly acceptable forms of ideological liberalism.

      One might even call it a step on the path to actual socialism. Someone should write a book about these transitionary states, perhaps leading to the eventual withering of the state entirely.

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          8 months ago

          Have you considered… Abolishing capitalism?

          Weird idea, I wonder if there’s literally millions of pages of thought on how to do that, or if some state somewhere just, like, didn’t let individuals own factories and such

          • @disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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            -28 months ago

            Sure. I was 20 once. I’m asking realistically. How would you propose addressing the wealth inequality within the means of our current system?

            • @Soggy@lemmy.world
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              38 months ago

              Our current system isn’t even that old. Burn it down. Stop internalizing the idea that capitlaism is necessary or inevitable.

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                -18 months ago

                Then I hope you like eating dent corn. The US produces a fraction of its resources, addressing the economy with a full upheaval would inevitably deflate the US Dollar enough to destroy our import/export trade for quite a while.