Comment on I'll care when I work for a co-op that is equally owned by all the workers.

• DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, blame the Russians. As if the Russian revolutionaries were not fighting for the same ideals you believe in. Just by not realizing that eliminating capitalists concentrated all the power in the government and handed power to Stalin on a silver platter.

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  • GoodEye8@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As someone also from a post soviet country, don’t make the mistake of thinking all socialism is the same as Leninism.

    Once you come up with an economic model that both works economically and does not hand power to elected officials or some other such group,

    So you’d rather support a system where the power is handed to the unelected “officials”? You can see that happening in real time with Musk effectively leading the US. Not to mention almost all forms of democracy have people handing the power to the elected government, so I really don’t know what you’re opposing here.

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    • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Comparing all capitalism to the US is the same as comparing all socialism to the Soviet Union.

      There are plenty social democracies in Europe. I advocate for spreading those and making incremental improvements to them where appropriate.

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      • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yet comparing all socialism to the Soviet Union is exactly what you did.

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