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Destroyed and replaced by?
People fail to realize that socialism isn't just an ideology but a process. It involves looking back at previous attempts and learning from their mistakes and improving.
Is every ideology also a process where people learn from their past attempts at achieving the ideology?
Correct, and the beneficiaries of capitalism have learned very well.
Hey, you cut it out with that education! How are people supposed to falsly believe that socialism is China or Russia or Vuvuzela if you go around explaining how it's not?
Vuvuzela, lol. Oterwise im not bashing ya nor your point just thought it sounded funny.
I am from Venezuela and it is indeed a socialist government shitshow
That’s what capitalism is for😎
Sounds like fixing to me
Fixing would be if we had logical productive discussions about these. But the US government is fundamentally broken and it is functionally impossible to fix these things in a reasonable amount of time.
Sure, you can get to a utopia by first destroying the old system, just look at how nice the world is in Star Trek.
It's going to suuuuuck for you though, living through the apocalypse needed to clean out the old system. It might be quicker overall, but I wouldn't wish that pain on the current generations of people living in the US.
The fun part is that you're on lemmy and I'm surprised no one has called you a conservative yet. This is because all of your ideas involve keeping the current system, and many people around here specifically want full socialism, Marxism, what have you
Huh? Most of those they listed are socialist ideas. And I'm pretty lemmy would agree with most of them.
Socialist by degree - but he mentions these things but not necessarily replacing the current system entirely. This is basically market socialism, which many (mainly Marxist-Leninists and the like) do not consider true socialism. There are a lot of MLs on lemmy. Hence my saying I'm surprised no one has come in yet to tell him he's not going far enough. We came close, someone called these fixes with the possible implication that he isn't going far enough, but not outright
Where?
Hold up I asked what political sistem would replace it. Lol not what changes we want no matter the system you are on
Another failed system
I will ask the questions, comrade
Versus doing nothing? Lemmy is fucking ass lately, shitting all over hyperbole while rolling over and letting capitalism and pessimism run your sorry, sad fucking lives.
Let's iterate!
Worker ownership over the means of production
(Not a huge fan of centralized planning since that tends to lead to authoritarianism)
Nothing.
Well, nothing where a human is in charge. I'd rather let Bing AI take the wheel. AI isn't greedy or ambitious for one so no need to go full totalitarian like every single revolution.
yet. I heard AIs are trained with data from humans who are... whoops!
Well then I guess we should give up and just line up to suck off billionaires like a circus seal then 🤣