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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you keep more than you need, yes. Socialism is not about hoarding wealth especially in the form of necessary goods.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who gets to decide how much I need? Some juche thug in the capital wearing a bunch of fake military ribbons? Sign me up!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

IDK, maybe we could decide such things similar to how we're having this conversation and we're able to upvote on what's being said. Totally unprecedented I know.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Do you think there's voting involved in a command economy?

My brother in Marx, that's not how any of this works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Me: how about democracy in the work place?

Reactionaries: but what about Stalin?

Me: did I stutter?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, thanks for clarifying that the internet still has no idea what socialism is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is private ownership of farmland socialism?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good question.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, socialism is about slave labour.