• J Lou@mastodon.social
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    3 months ago

    I’m not a socialist, but what I advocate for is explicitly postcapitalist.

    Some postcapitalist policies include

    - All firms are mandated to be worker coops similar to how local governments are mandated to be democratic
    - Land and natural resources are collectivized with a 100% land value tax and various sorts of emission taxes etc
    - Voluntary democratic collectives that manage collectivized means of production and provide start up funds to worker coops
    - UBI

    @leftymemes

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      3 months ago

      I’m not a socialist

      All firms are mandated to be worker coops

      Pretty sure that qualifies as socialism for most people. Welcome onboard, my friend!

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          3 months ago

          Some people think so. That doesn’t make it a good academic definition. You get into the shitty definition of socialism that Dr. Wolff mocks:

          “When the government that’s a lot of stuff, that’s socialism. And the more stuff it does, the more socialist it gets. And when it does a reeeeeal whole lot of stuff, then that’s communism”

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            The academic definition would be the systems of the historical Eastern Bloc countries or a hypothetical society that has somehow completely abolished commodity production

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            Rhetorically, it doesn’t matter how I define the term. It matters how people use it.

            The way I would define it is either the systems of historical Eastern Bloc countries or a hypothetical society that has somehow completely abolished commodity production

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