Socialism will never work because it’s founded on emancipation, and you can’t force people to emancipate themselves. That would be the opposite of emancipation.
I’m not sure if this is a quote, I can’t remember where I heard it.
“Emancipation” in this case meaning emancipation from wage slavery.
Socialism is everywhere, currently. The American government is socialist, but they do t allow any of those policies to trickle down to you as citizens. They bar it at every opportunity to continue to enrich themselves on your backs. Canada is a socialist society, as is most of the developed world.
UBI would be ideal, it is actually cheaper to pay for people before they become destitute, homeless criminals. But then you don’t have the scaremongering keeping people working shitty jobs for shit pay to stay on the “good” side of society.
You wouldn’t even need to with UBI, shit employers would not be able to find workers, and people inherently want to do things and make a difference/impact on the lives of others.
Disabled people could still house and feed themselves. Mentally ill people could seek the treatment they need to get better. It is cheaper and more effective to deal with problems before they become problems. Cleaning up the mess is far more costly on so many different metrics it’s almost funny we don’t do this already.
That’s right, “socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor.” as MLK Jr. said.
Socialism refers to worker ownership of the means of production, not “when the government does stuff”.
While politicians call anything the government does socialism, that doesn’t make it so.
No, that’s communism. Socialism is a different ism. Keep trying.
No. Communism is the next step of socialism.
Also “is a different ism” 1950s/1960s america called and wants its red scare back
Isms are things. Capitalism, socialism, communism, fundementalism, etc… It’s not hard man, it’s the basics of world governments. Know your isms. The right in America wants you to believe socialism IS communism, but it’s not. They also think Trump is a good leader. Not exactly top of the class over there. They lie to you, a lot!
Alright. I miss judged your goals here. My appologice
Communism is a stateless classless, moneyless society. Most communists see socialism as a prerequisite for communism
They share some similar ideology. That’s why the west adopted a lot of the good things communism was doing while trying to avoid the worse things. Hence, socialism.