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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 days agoYeah because of how mega capitalist it was
Capital accumulation is a predicate for the surpluses needed to build a socialist economy.
Worker ownership of means of production, usually.
Public pensions and union shops lay claim to the surplus profits of capital. The UK’s union membership peaked in the 1970s, as did its wages/pensions. After Thatcher, that share declined rapidly, as did the supply of council housing, the access to public health care and education, and the various other amenities common to socialist economies.
Let’s say Eastern Block, China, you get the picture.
The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
- Michael Parenti
Don’t get much more “worker ownership of means of production” than that.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 days ago
You’re not really giving any actual examples of automation shortening the work week in socialist countries here, unless a socialist country for you is the UK in the 70’s and unless automation for you is a maoists uprising against landlords.
Don’t you have at least some examples fitting the actual claim?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I pointed you directly to the 8-day workweek, which was the consequence of socialist reforms following the industrial revolution.
You can find the same reforms implemented in socialist states ranging from Lenin’s Russia to Sankara’s Burkino Faso. It wasn’t just in England that we got statutory limits on the labor day and rules for overtime pay.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 days ago
And again it’s not an achievement of socialist countries specifically. It happened (and originated) in the capitalist countries too.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It is an achievement of socialism, specifically.
And when the socialists get control of the whole country, it becomes an achievement of a socialist country