Sorry for the bad picture I kinda scrambled to get it, but yeah my prof went fully into the whole "in communism you don't own your toothbrush" stuff and then put up this slide.
I'm glad that my webcam and mic was off because I couldn't stop myself from rolling my eyes at that.
edit: idk why the pic is rotated and idk how to fix it
I had workmates tell me America was already a little bit socialist, because we have social security and medicare. I basically outed myself as a communist by knowing that's not what socialism is.
:amerikkka:
They are in so far as that they are the remnant of the socialist movement that once existed in the USA that the bourgeois haven't been able to get rid of.
I don't like how quick leftists are to dismiss SS and Medicare. Like yeah, they are now just incorporated into the capitalist state, but SS was a massive achievement that reduced poverty by an order of magnitude and it was only possible because of leftist and union organizing forcing capital to do it. Like I feel we shouldn't just ceed that achievement to the capitalists.
I'm not dismissive of SS or Medicare, it's just that those two things have pretty much nothing to do with whether America is socialist. America is not socialist. Workers do not own their labor via those programs.
It's really amazing to me that nearly everyone I've met who knows the definition of socialism turns out to be a leftist. The only others I've met are very bizarre hardline liberals who believe democracy is impossible because...something something natural hierarchies
Do they believe in clinton kill list and thinks it's a good thing?
It's more abstract than that, they believe socialism is simply built on lying and workers are better off listening to business owners on how to run an economy. They're very direct about their belief in IQ score based competency for participating in society
Shit, most of the people I know who are able to describe/define what capitalism are socialists.