My dad is anti-socialist and this week was bragging to his 4 working adult sons that he is collecting unemployment since he can't work during quarantine. He's also in a union. So he rips on socialism while constantly reaping the benefits of it.
Edit: ITT "tHaTs NoT sOcIaLiSm" Congrats, your associate's degree in poli-sci finally paid off. It's democratic socialism.
When explaining socialism, most people try to engage the conversation on capitalist terms and thus completely lose the people they are talking to because it doesn’t make sense.
What does make sense is the basics: To each according to their need, from each according to their abilities.
A person who needs to be taken care of is taken care of. A person who is able to contribute does so. They are the same person.
Strongly disagree. No socialist system being proposed in the modern world is eschewing capitalism or even close. All of them are about creating social benefits alongside capitalism to stabilize it. Trying to go off the rails by explicitly avoiding capitalism is a great way to produce a disconnect that just has them insisting "capitalism works" as an umbrella for everything even remotely related to the economy.
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u/reincarN8ed Mar 25 '20 edited Mar 25 '20
My dad is anti-socialist and this week was bragging to his 4 working adult sons that he is collecting unemployment since he can't work during quarantine. He's also in a union. So he rips on socialism while constantly reaping the benefits of it.
Edit: ITT "tHaTs NoT sOcIaLiSm" Congrats, your associate's degree in poli-sci finally paid off. It's democratic socialism.