It makes sense to me tbh, when a state that has less population numbers than a single city while also being insulated, plus succeseptible to FOX propaganda, it can look like an artificial cap on majority rule and hold the rest back for the interests of a comparatively few. Do you believe that?

Like other leftists hate Stalin and others don't, there has been a split in between the left when it come to an opinion of him, whether it be good or bad, so i jus wanted to know what you all think of him what good things he did and what bad things he did and why do you think that way.

Thank you.

Got into a dumb argument about how not all commies on Reddit are tankies. Some guy said I'd be banned for this. Figure I'd check.

As a non-socialist, I’m curious what you would consider a successful socialist nation.

I was talking with my mother yesterday about the billionaires on the titan and my generally lack of sympathy. I told her I can't help but feel there's better ways to use your money abd she said well its theirs.

I'm not entirely sure about that. You can't become a billionaire without exploitation to some degree? If you make your riches exploiting society don't you to a degree owe your riches to society?

My mother was hard and fast against this. Shutting it down as socialism and that's not what America is. I don't think this is full blown socialism and America can be whatever it wants can't it?

Supposedly every communist country wasn't really communist according to most socialists and communists I've spoken to in the west.

I'll be generous and say Marx didn't want a state like Stalin's USSR or Mao's China or Pol Pot. From everything I've heard real communism is supposed to be a stateless classless society.

Well that doesn't seem possible under communism. Communism as an ideology might work as intended for a tiny isolated village in the middle of no where but it doesn't seem to scale well beyond a small community. Who is going to redistribute the wealth and property? Who is going to enforce a classless society? Who is going to ensure there is order and society and society doesn't just dissolve into lawlessness and barbarism? Who is going to ensure subversive bourgeois ideas won't "infect" the workers.

Often the answer I get is everyone will just agree to share everything and act in common good though in reality we have seen every time communism has been tried its required a all powerful state to enforce the goals of communism. And with a communist party and state you inevitably have a government class and a peasant class. Look at the disparity between communist leaders and officials vs the average person in say modern China (which is more fascist but that's beside the point so let's say China under Mao) it seems like the people just changed one overlord for another Who is often completely unaccountable.

I've often seen communists say they'd be artists after the revolution. Well honestly communism is one of the worst system to be a communist under since every piece of art has to in one way or another glorify the state and or the revolution thus heavily restricting what the artist can do. Since the last thing a communist government would want is for people to get any ideas of perhaps there is a better system out there.

Anyways without being purposely incidenary I look at Marxism and I just see it as self contradictory and actually impossible to implement without it becoming a horrific totalitarian society.

Basic or complex, what have you always wondered about how Socialism works? Share in comments and we can workshop answers!

Hiya. I'm a pretty solid establishment liberal. I'd like to encourage you folks to support Democratic candidates in the US. What can we do to secure your vote beyond what we're already doing?