• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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        Today I learned that Socialism is when you do Capitalism in a nice way.

        Oh wait, no I didn’t, because Capitalism and Socialism are completely different modes of Production.

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          No, they’re not.

          They’re economic systems, not modes of production.

          Today, you’re still refusing to accept reality.

          It’s right there before your eyes. You’re too brainwashed to see it.

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            In your own words, they are economic systems. What do you call a system built on Capitalism, but with a slightly larger welfare net? Socialism? No, you call it Capitalism.

            You’re calling me brainwashed for correctly pointing out that Capitalism is Capitalism, even if you dress it up nicely?

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              “system built on capitalism”

              You still don’t even understand what I mean when I say you’re conflating “capitalism” and market economies.

              You think when people buy and sell things, that’s “capitalism.”

              Is Finland a social democracy? Yes

              And what does this say about what school of thought does social democracies belong to? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy

              #Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism[

              “wää wää wää no it’s not socialism, it’s capitalism, but I refuse to believe it and I don’t have to explain myself”

              • you

              Please define socialism for me.

              Because this an official definition

              a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or REGULATED BY the community as a whole. “we want a real democratic and pluralist left party—one which unites all those who believe in socialism”

              Even the US has socialist policies, because “pure” capitalism is completely unworkable, because it kills the economy stone dead

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                Believe me, I’m not conflating Capitalism with markets. Capitalism is a specific form of market economy by which individual Capitalists buy and sell Means of Production, or Capital, by which they can pay Workers to use and create commodities via wage labor.

                Examples of Socialist market economies include Market Socialism, a form of Socialism built on competing worker-owned co-operatives.

                Examples of Socialist Market Economies do not include Capitalist Social Democracies, because the primary defining feature of Social Democracies is Capitalism with generous social safety nets, a kind of “human-centric” Capitalism.

                You on the other hand are making the misconception that Socialism is simply when the government does stuff. You’re wrong, of course, as countless people here have pointed put.

                Capitalism with regulation is still Capitalism. Socialism is when Workers share ownership of the Means of Production, simple as.

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                  Examples of Socialist market economies include Market Socialism, a form of Socialism built on competing worker-owned co-operatives.

                  Honestly. Like seriously honestly adult adult honestly. Why the fuck do you not bother to spend 30 seconds checking concepts you have no idea about, and instead pull shit out of your arse?

                  Market socialism isn’t defined by worker cooperatives, it’s defined by socialism which utilises market economy. Like the socialist democracies of the Nordic countries.

                  You can’t even define capitalism, yet demand everyone is utilising it.

                  If a country doesn’t have a planned economy, you won’t admit it’s not capitalist. Which is so dumb I can’t even find the words to describe it.

                  “Capitalist social democracies”

                  So just refusing reality, huh?

                  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy

                  #Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism

                  #WITHIN SOCIALISM

                  How hard is this for you to understand?

                  #WITHIN SOCIALISM

                  not “withing capitalism”

                  Capitalism with regulation is still Capitalism. Socialism is when Workers share ownership of the Means of Production, simple as.

                  No, it simply isn’t. That’s like saying “you’re not gay as long as you don’t penetrate another mans anus, sexual attraction to men has nothing to do with being homosexual”.

                  The simple definition of socialism is when the means of production are owned OR REGULATED BY the government.

                  Which part of “OR REGULATED” do you not understand?

                  This is exactly what I meant with my first comments. Delusional fuckers like you, pretending all market economy is capitalism. Even the US doesn’t have “pure” capitalism, as the antitrust laws are by definition socialist policies.

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                    I did define Capitalism, it’s a market based system by which Capitalists buy and sell Capital and Pay Workers wages to produce commodities.

                    Please read any Socialist literature, you’ve gotten completely twisted into thinking Socialism is a nice form of Capitalism.