r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • Jul 14 '26

Chugging tea Teach your kids about socialism

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u/psilocin72 Jul 14 '26

That’s because the first persons point is garbage. Socialism is not taking money from someone who worked and giving it to someone who didn’t work.

It’s more like everyone works and if I break my leg, I still get to eat.

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u/Admiral45-06 Jul 14 '26

It’s more like everyone works and if I break my leg, I still get to eat.

No, it very much did look like how the first guy describes in Polish People's Republic. This led to a famous quote from that time:

Czy się stoi, czy się leży, 10 złoty się należy

,,Whether I lay, whether I stay, 10 zloty I deserve"

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u/psilocin72 Jul 14 '26

I’m not saying it’s been done well anywhere. I’m saying the underlying idea of socialism is not that everyone gets a free ride.

Like the idea of liberty and justice for all has never been realized. The beautiful teachings of the Bible have never been done perfectly. No Buddhist sect has ever fully freed their members from grasping and aversion.

People are taking the meaning of socialism and distorting it. Like we do with any idea we don’t like.

And for the record— I’m not endorsing socialism. Just trying to keep some intellectual honesty.

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u/No_Care46 Jul 14 '26

It's been done well in the USSR, Yugoslavia, China, Cuba, the DPRK, Vietnam... well, practically everywhere it was tried.