• Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Socialism and stability. I want to persue my passions without needing to devote half of my waking hours to a job (which all are incredibly mentally draining for me), and without fear of not having my basic needs met, and I want everyone else to have the same opportunity. A job should be supplimental if people choose to work, which many will, as they feel it gives them purpose.

    A post-scarcity society and the death of corruption would be cool too.

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      Yeah it’s always strange to me that most people are working class yet most people are so allergic to the idea of socialism, thanks Russia

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        P r o p a g a n d a

        Also the history of centralized control over industry hasn’t worked out too well. I’m more of the Richard Wolff philosophy of democracy over the workplace, along with a very strong social safety net, including, but not limited to a UBI that is enough for people to comfortably live on.

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          If everyone got UBI, no one would eventually be able to live comfortably off it.

          Edit: Also, “propaganda” but “the history of centralized control over industry hasn’t worked out too well” LOL

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        Huummm… thanks Russia? And not the CIA? Why would Russia be responsible for people hating socialism?

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            It ended really badly, but how did it not go very well during it? Honest question here.

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                Authoritarianism doesn’t really mean much. And according to the US (through the CIA) itself, Stalin-era USSR was more democratic than appeared in western media.

                https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf

                But in any case, even if that was the case, it wasn’t “authoritarian” after Stalin. Like y’know, most countries after WW2 (not just Italy and Germany btw. Or people forget Churchill and FDR, and the “war economies”? The internment camps, jailing of “political dissidents” etc. etc.).