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My views on socialism, the USSR, what a socialist economy truly is as opposed to a soviet state capitalist economy.

Channel: People & Blogs
Uploaded: August 25, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Author: RedCeltic

Length: 00:09:11
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Views: 7837

Tags: socialism ussr communist socialist labor party social democratic Debs Deleon Marx Lenin revolution

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TomPaine29 (February 14, 2008 at 12:14 am)
Excellent work comrade! Keep it up.
IWW610 (December 19, 2007 at 10:46 pm)
I'm a BIG fan of your work. I feel it important to mention that socialism is making great strides through out the industrialised world. (mostly Europe, not so much in the U.S.A.) solidarity F.W.
Syndicalistgirl (December 7, 2007 at 2:07 pm)
Nice stuff, mike! you certainly know your shit and do it well.

until Revolution!
RedCeltic (December 7, 2007 at 5:58 pm)
Thanks! It's not much different from many conversations I've had with you over the years
stratvic (November 21, 2007 at 2:48 pm)
Majority rule still prevails in the US over the rights of individuals. A newly elected government will only to the "least damage" if that is manifested in the policies that the majority wants. If the opposite is true then more damage is equally likely ... regardless of how you define damage.
stratvic (November 21, 2007 at 2:44 pm)
I thought that the free market by giving every consumer a say in the products and service they consume that that served the purpose of giving everyone a hand in the decision as to how to organize the means of production and all resources in a society.

How does socialism differ and why is its method better?
stratvic (November 21, 2007 at 2:40 pm)
Free market to my mind does not include corporations or government subsidized or licensed businesses (govt created monopolies).
thelaughingman (November 21, 2007 at 1:00 pm)
Customers will not be wholly excluded from this process.
for example say a family needs a house built they would go to a contracting firm. they would setup the design location etc. they would in turn work with the family to decide what jobs get contracted to who. the contractors will get the supplies from a supplier. the same as it works now the difference being that these firms are run by the workers who can now work directly with the family that needs the house.
thelaughingman (November 21, 2007 at 12:54 pm)
the means of production specifically means land, money, machinery. However the labor, skills, innovation, etc are all things that come from the human side of the production. and in a democratic workplace the individual would be able to present an idea to either a committee or elected management (whatever the workplace decides) and then decide if it has merit enough for investment.
stratvic (November 21, 2007 at 2:34 pm)
Decision making, goal setting, and organizing are not really the forte of democracy.

Popular ideas are as often as not wrong. Every new idea that we ever had, and now widely hold as true, was held by a minority first and usually a minority of one.

I am not sure that bringing democracy into the workplace is a good idea.