Yes I know China is also technically capitalist but you understand the idea

  • WillStealYourUsername
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    1 month ago

    They are not socialist in the slightest. That requires the workers to own the means of production, which they do not.

    Edit: To expand on this companies are organized the same way as in capitalism because they are capitalist. Workers at the bottom, management in the middle, and rich capitalists at the top.

    • Cowbee [he/they]
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      41 month ago

      The overwhelming majority of the large firms and key industries are publicly owned and planned, so yes, the workers do own the means of production for the majority of the economy. Further, managers are workers too, not owners. I think you have a very specific view of Socialism that’s exclusionary towards Marxism, for Marxists cooperatives aren’t truly “Socialist” as they are petite bourgeois cells that retain private property and exclusive ownership within, when the goal of Marxist Communisn is the eventual abolition of Private Property, which can only be accomplished by folding all property into the hands of all, through public ownership.

      • WillStealYourUsername
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        101 month ago

        The workers have no meaningful power or ownership over their workplaces, so it doesn’t matter how much is publicly owned. I personally will never accept the marxist redefinition of socialism, nor will I ever accept an authoritarian vanguard state.

        I do not want to continue this debate, tankie. It’s never productive for anyone.