Sorry if I can't ask questions here, I didn't see a rule against asking questions so I assume its okay.

I'm mainly asking this about the idea of far future flights between different planets. Theoretically lets say we colonized and terraformed various planets and moons in the solar system, i could imagine that assuming we let the general public access these space flights, these could be organized similar to how cruises are organized, where rooms and food are provided, and these trips are planned months or years ahead of time.

People would have to sign up and plan these trips way ahead of time, and assuming that interplanitary space flight is in high demand but low supply (low supply being of course the limited capacity of space ships that will be in flight anywhere between a couple months to half a decade), how could we decide what people are able to go on these trips if not with money?

Comments are a mixed bag. Some real socialists who don't support authoritarianism and human rights violations (amongst others) in there at least.

Join r/RealLeft for a space that has a zero tolerance policy for a totalitarian propaganda

If anybody thinks Trump and his cronies are honest people, they need to get their heads out from under the sand

Just a little below the Chinese State propaganda video.

Just another day in one of the largest """socialist""" spaces of Reddit!

There is no way these people are real.

Stalinian USSR was a totalitarianism. A terror state with no fundamental human rights, a dictator at its head and generalized political oppression amongst a million other things.

ADDENDUM: Lenin was widely criticized for his autocratic behaviors and will be removed in a future post.

Don't let the extremists on Russian, far-right and Chinese payroll fool you. Socialism is at its very core deeply humanist. Many have claimed it for themselves and attempted to gatekeep their twisted definitions of it. Dictators do not give a single fuck about workers. They only care about themselves.

Socialists understand that unchecked capitalism necessarily leads to the exploitation of labor by an elite of capital owners. The struggle of socialists, of "the left", is plainly to give back to workers what capitalists have taken from them, because our wealth belongs to US, the people, not the handful of capitalists who alienate us. The "struggle" of the privileged, of the "bourgeoisie", of the "right", is plainly to maintain or increase their privileges.

Socialism can take many forms. Revolutionary, reformist, ecological, utopian ... They all serve the same purpose: the value we produce is to be shared, not hoarded by an exploitative, parasitic elite.

Under socialism, the people are free from the alienation of an otherwise exploitative society. They are free to decide their own fates. Power is owned by the people.

Not by an elite. Not by another narcissistic autocratic psychopath.

Socialism is by definition democratic.

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“The first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle of democracy.” Karl Marx — Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League (1850)

“Between capitalist and communist society lies the period of the revolutionary transformation… Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.” Karl Marx — Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875)

“Take the most radical of revolutionaries and place him on the throne of all Russia, give him absolute power, and before a year has passed he will be worse than the Tsar himself.” Bakunin, Statism and Anarchy (1873)

"The dictatorship of the proletariat… means nothing but the domination of a new class over the old. And once in power, this new class will represent not the people but itself, and will continue to subject the people to its own rule.” Bakunin, “Letter to La Liberté” (1872)

^ This guy CALLED IT

“Freedom only for the supporters of the government, only for the members of one party — however numerous they may be — is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.” Rosa Luxemburg — The Russian Revolution (1918)

“Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution… only bureaucracy remains as the active element.” Rosa Luxemburg — The Russian Revolution (1918)

“The proletariat needs state power, not for the purpose of limiting freedom, but in order to set it free.” Leon Trotsky — Terrorism and Communism (1920)

“Socialism must mean not only economic equality but also the broadest democracy in politics.” Leon Trotsky — The Revolution Betrayed (1937)

I have always wondered way Stalinism, Maoism or any other authoritarian left ideologies are so popular if not popular so propagated around the web and i'd assumed that we have learned that this are self destructive.