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Socialist governments killed tens of millions of people in the 20th century. They acquired power far more completely than any company has. Big companies come a

Socialist governments killed tens of millions of people in the 20th century. They acquired power far more completely than any company has. Big companies come and go. They may have power, but it's temporary, and there's nothing violent when they start losing their footing. I'd rather have Amazon delivery my groceries than live in Venezuela.

panic 9y ago
That's why most modern socialists don't want an authoritarian government with a planned economy. As the parent comment says, > The best hopes for decentralization lie in genuinely decentralized solutions that give power back to workers, like worker cooperatives, democratic labor unions, and political protest. These are bottom-up solutions that can work just as easily in a democratic state.
TheAdamAndChe 9y ago
> I'd rather have Amazon delivery my groceries than live in Venezuela. This is an either-or logical fallacy, acting like the only two options are either pure capitalism or pure socialism. Many countries in the world manage to have some basics like socialized healthcare and education, yet they manage to not be hell-holes. Germany managed to enforce anti-trust legislation in their country to such an extent that Walmart left the country, yet "tens of millions of people" haven't been killed in the process. Any ideology taken to a violent extreme is bad. That includes both communism and capitalism. Market failures are real, and the increase in socialist tendencies in the US is because most people recognize that those market failures need to be corrected.