Comment on I'll care when I work for a co-op that is equally owned by all the workers.
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 4 days agoYeah, 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.
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 3 days ago
As someone also from a post soviet country, don’t make the mistake of thinking all socialism is the same as Leninism.
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.
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 3 days 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.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yet comparing all socialism to the Soviet Union is exactly what you did.
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I literally wrote that I would support some form of socialism. That is not sarcasm. I am not talking about one example, I am talking about economic and game theory principles.
If you analyse the common forms of socialism using those, it is obvious it will always devolve into authoritarianism. The incentives between leaders and the population are too misaligned.