reminds me of when hillary said "we will never win against China unless we take back the means of production"

  • MalarchoBidenism [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I was gonna make a post about this (I forgor💀), but there's a clip of Reagan doing a speech where he says the next logical step in the US and Western Europe is "employee ownership".

    We tend to think of the ruling class as being very class conscious and deliberately deceiving the working class, but most of them probably are just as brainwormed as the average liberal / conservative. The result is the same though. :desolate:

    • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The scariest thing about this world is that good people with good intentions can end up doing a lot of harm (not that I think any US politician, especially not Rubio is a good person with good intentions).

    • barrbaric [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I assume that just means "employees should get stocks!" which is less socialism and more a way of getting the working class to sympathize with the bourgeoisie, much like capitalist home-ownership turns everyone into a petit bourg.

      • KoeRhee [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah, Reagan was the one responsible for the American retirement system outside of social security shifting from a pension based system to a 401k based one.