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

  • CrimsonSage [any]
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • macabrett
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      2 years ago

      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.