I'm against socialism and communism because literally every time someone tries to actually put it into place they just end up recreating monarchy or creating an authoritarian state which is still capitalist.
Soviet union? Just a rebrand of the Russian empire.
North Korea? Just a family cos playing as the Joseon dynasty.
China? Just a capitalist quasi-fascist state actively trying to recreate the old imperial borders.
I don't know enough about Cuba but it just seems to be a pseudo-democratic state.
The first thing these guys always do when they grab power is destroy the same trade unions that helped them gain it in the first place. So now when you're being oppressed by your boss, you can't take him to court. He's literally part of the government now so they'll call you a counter revolutionary and kill your ass or force you into a prison where you will be used as slave labor.
The USSR used a combination of slavery and culling the population to achieve technological parity with the rest of Europe and Asia. They caught up, but the cost was paid in literally millions of lives.
That's depressing though so let's play a game
en.m.wikipedia.org
Tell me how many of those
worker owned companies are in countries that use socialist or communist branding.
Maybe that's unfair? Okay let's go by unionized labor then
en.m.wikipedia.org
Oh look, China has some unions
Oh wait, it's literally just one giant organization.
en.m.wikipedia.org
Well let's look a little closer maybe--
"...The ACFTU is the country's sole legally mandated trade union, with which all enterprise-level trade unions must be affiliated.
There has been dispute over whether ACFTU is an independent trade union or a trade union at all."
"The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (now the International Trade Union Confederation)
maintains the position that the ACFTU is not an independent union, stating in its policy:
There are differing approaches among ICFTU affiliates and Global Union Federations concerning contacts with the ACFTU ranging from "no contacts" to "constructive dialog." The ICFTU, noting that the ACFTU is not an independent trade union organization and, therefore, cannot be regarded as an authentic voice of Chinese workers, reaffirms its request to all affiliates and Global Union Federations having contacts with the Chinese authorities, including the ACFTU, to engage in critical dialog. This includes raising violations of fundamental workers' and trade union rights in any such meetings, especially concerning cases of detention of trade union and labor rights activists.[15]"
The answer is always MORE democracy not less. Company policy should be determined AFTER consultation with the staff and internal voting. Families should be run democratically so children don't grow up accepting paternalistic authoritarianism and become bytchmade adults who uncritically accept policies forced upon them instead of holding politicians accountable. If people grow up thinking they have a say in their home, a say in their school, and a say in their workplace, then they'll be engaged on local, state, and national levels when it comes to politics and you'll get policies that represent the interests of the people who make the functioning of the country possible rather than those who reap ridiculous profits(like the 56 billion a nazi sympathizer just got and will use to support a white supremacist who will cut his already low taxes even further and cut funding even further to regulatory bodies like the SEC and FTC)
Socialism and communism have to EVOLVE OUT OF the culture. You can't force it into a population because then what you just end up doing is recreating the structures people ALREADY KNOW. Its like how in almost every Sci fi story that is supposed to take place in the future they're using some kind of gun or sword as a weapon, and their economic system still involves heavily capitalist elements if not just straight up being capitalist. The reason the fiction reflects that, is because of a fundamental lack of imagination created and encouraged BY the status quo. People literally can't imagine a world without what they've grown up with. When a country becomes more democratic on a cultural as well as economic level(for example normalizing parents and children voting for what meal the family will eat, or voting on family vacation, or voting on chore rotation) you get people who have a severe revulsion to authoritarianism and concentration of power. When "your vote matters" actually means something, you will get a society that evolves from capitalism to socialism and then finally to anarchism where decisions are made by groups of people coming together.
. Im only saying we need to turn up the level of control over citizens.
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