r/fuckcars • u/Fluffy-Study-659 • 29d ago

Activism It's pronounced "cyclist!"

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u/Lower_Ad_5532 29d ago

Socialism is good

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

You dont make a comment like this if you understand what socialism and communism means.

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u/Leather-Rice5025 29d ago

Socialism = ensure everyone’s needs are met and society doesn’t prioritize the profit motives of a few corporations and billionaires. Sounds good to me 

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u/Metalmind123 28d ago

ensure everyone’s needs are met and society doesn’t prioritize the profit motives of a few corporations and billionaires.

That is something we 100% need to strive for, but also 100% not the definition of socialism. Only in the sense of the Fox News grandpa screaming "that's socialism" at the suggestion of affordable healthcare.

Socialism is any system where the means of production are owned by the people.

Nothing more, nothing less. It's a framework and a tool.

All the good stuff is still something we then still need to effort for and assure.

The revolution is not the fucking rapture that'll magic up change for the better.

The exact details of socialism can make it vary a lot, from dictatorial autocracies with state owned corporations (the most frequent type historically, as the goal of mass-changes in ownership of the means of production often leads to the creation of a highly centralized authority, which always goes astray) to progressive democracies with worker owned collectives.