i don't know if i'm a socialist or whatever all i know is that i just want trans and gay people to be able to live their lives, women to not have men make decisions about their bodies, borders to be abolished, people to not want the earth to burn up, and to ducking just care about conserving endangered species.
bonus points for elected officials to behave like fucking grown ass adults for once.
I dont think anything you said would qualify you as a "socialist"
That's a progressive outlook, but not a Socialist one, primarily because nothing you said has anything directly to do with Modes of Production.
A Socialist is someone who wants the Means of Production to be collectively shared, rather than privately owned. There are many forms of it, like Syndicalism, Anarchism, Marxism, Market Socialism, etc.
So by your example, a socialist is someone who's not a dick? I can get behind that 😁.
basically :D
Not necessarily. Those things can be fixed without instituting socialism (if they're fixable. That's not a given) and may even be done better without it based on socialism's real record!
Same. I believe in the abolition of hierarchy in all forms and a society based on community and co-operation and don’t believe that any human should have any lever on power or control over any other person.
So…I guess I do know. Never mind.
I would settle for everybody banning TikTok and Facebook usage. That's all I wanted for christmas.
It is worse when you're an anarchist. Best case, they say you're a socialist. Worst case, they say you're an extremist rioter.
Both are not true, but the later couldn't be further from it.
Anarchism would be closer to an extreme libertarianism than socialism. Socialism is usually seen as an overreach of government by those who oppose it, unless they are even further left than that and want more government involvement in the economy. If people can't even wrap their head around your political beliefs, how are you supposed have an intelligent conversation with them?
If socialism is understood as collective/worker ownership of the means of production, which I would argue is a fitting and accurate definition, then anarchism requires socialism in order to end coercive relationships of domination in the workplace. Socialism doesn't necessitate a state and many anarchists/libertarian socialists would argue socialism is impossible with a state
I'm an anarcho-syndicalist. I told my cool family members. I just call myself a socialist now around them, it's easier.
Honestly at a certain point labels only help when you share a common definition with your audience.
If I call myself a socialist I need to preface it by defining socialism because everyone above 25 still thinks it means autocratic dictatorial regime where the government owns your underpants.
I just tell people that democracy is better than monarchy so we should expand that to workplaces and give workers a vote on the direction of their workplace. Most people are more amenable to this than dropping the S word or god forbid C word.
Anarchism is Socialist. It may not be Marxist, but Anarchism cannot exist when property rights create hierarchy.
Damn I feel that
At least the horse is not loose in the hospital anymore.
And yet there are entire teams of billionaires attempting to get the horse back into the hospital.
That's right, Mattpad
I want to kill everything, Satan is good, Satan is my friend. I am not Tom Hanks in a movie called the neighbors.
That's because you are Tom Hanks in The Burbs lol
