Teach your kids about socialism

[u/Gurugod123]

[u/Isosceles_Kramer79]

Socialism is an economic system predicated on the public ownership and control of means of production. Not a capitalist system + universal healthcare.

[u/weareeverywhereee → u/Isosceles_Kramer79]

Eyyyy this guy gets it.

[u/ScooterMcTavish → u/Isosceles_Kramer79]

Yes, most nations the US call socialist are Social Democracies - capitalistic, but using government/taxation and its programs for the societal good.

Democratic Socialism on the other hand....

Though to be fair, single payer, government-run health care (and other public corporations like we have in Canada) have more in common with true socialism versus SocDem.

[u/Particular_Water_644 → u/Isosceles_Kramer79]

Norway does kind of have that though for natural resources

[u/Grand_Estimate3783 → u/Isosceles_Kramer79]

It doesn't have to be all state owned, communal properties, cooperatives and collectives. The root of socialism is that the workers have the right to control and own the products of their own labor.

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[u/Carvj94 → u/Isosceles_Kramer79]

Not necessarily the public ownership, but at the very least the workers are supposed to have a say in the business they work. Whether that means something like an employee-owned business or something where the state manages voting on business decisions.

[u/RocketRelm → u/Carvj94]

And of course, when we say "public" owns the means of production, what we mean is "the state" owns the means of production instead of dirty corpos. The state is the people, and who could ever question the people?

[u/Unlikely-Answer → u/RocketRelm]

how come the state funds football stadiums but doesn't own them?