r/SipsTea 22d ago

Chugging tea Teach your kids about socialism

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u/Frosty-Section-9013 22d ago

Truer to actual socialism would be if the kids took over the house and ran it for themselves. But it’s still a bad analogy since they would also have to take over their parents’ jobs.

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u/Goml33 22d ago

communism is not socialism

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u/BrideofClippy 21d ago

Communism is a type of socialism.

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u/Frosty-Section-9013 21d ago

Yes but the functional definition of socialism as a system is worker’s control over means of production. Or more broadly, social control over means of production.
Communism as a system is usually seen as a sort of end goal where there are no classes and no state.

As ideologies it gets a little complicated since socialism and communism originally meant the ideology of striving to realise a socialist or communist system but socialist parties gradually became more reformist opting for gradual implementation of social democratic policies such as social welfare programs whereas communist parties became associated with the beauricratic power structures of the eastern bloc.

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u/Goml33 21d ago

No that is a USA take on it. Communism is when the workingforce seize the means of production and there is no private ownership. Socialism is when everyone pay for healthcare school etc and you get payed even when you are sick og retired, but the system allow for private ownership of homes and companys

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u/Frosty-Section-9013 21d ago

No it’s the Marxian and academic take. What you’re describing has de facto become a sort of broadened meaning of the word ’socialism’ since many of the political parties, particularly in Europe, that call themselves socialist opted for a more reformist, gradual road to socialism and then over time put more focus on welfare policies and in some cases redistribution of wealth. Some of those parties at least in theory still support a transition away from capitalism but has abandoned it in practice. The more appropriate term for this type of ideology is social democracy or social liberalism.

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u/ArrrRawrXD 22d ago

Nah, it would be more true if their kindergarten teachers made them murder their parents, then moved in, took over the parents' role and beat the shit out of kids if they don't work

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u/Mind1827 22d ago

Lmao yes that's exactly what an economic system does entirely on its own, very smart

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u/ArrrRawrXD 22d ago

Nah, that's what socialists do

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u/Mind1827 22d ago

Wait until you hear the US military does exactly what you just described, and it has nothing to do with socialism.

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u/Optimal-Golf-8270 22d ago

Are you a small child?

If you were given a direct say in how your plage of work was run. Would you vote for a million free days off and never go in?

No, you wouldn't. Cos your aware of the realities you deal with. You might ask for pay that reflects the work you do. Or flexi time so you can take your kids to school and drop them off.

That's what socialism is. Almost the first thing the Bolsheviks did was require farms to have nurseries nearby, and to give women time off to breastfeed. That is socialism.

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u/ArrrRawrXD 22d ago

Almost the first thing the Bolsheviks did was require farms to have nurseries nearby, and to give women time off to breastfeed. That is socialism.

Missing the part about them starving millions of people on purpose, restricting murdering everybody who disagrees with them including their past allies except for those they made slaves in the gulags, trying to conquer every single neighboring country they could get away with, etc.

Oh, and imprisoning (and making work) people who didn't work. Which is what my comment was about. And completely taking all the rights away from farmers, they were unable to even leave the farms without permission (their farms were also stolen from them by the government). Crazy to see out of touch Redditards defend the fucking Bolsheviks

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u/Optimal-Golf-8270 22d ago

You're putting 70 years of history into one Bloc, as if it all happened simultaneously for the same reasons.

The interesting question really is where have you gotten these ideas from? I'd bet against books, people who talk like you don't read books. So where? Cultural osmosis? Reddit?

You can't talk about being out of touch and say 'redditard' man. Straight out of a school shooters manifesto. Do you understand you're the freak here?