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Nothing is socialist about this law, nor any other law California has. This law is stupid (and unconstitutional), but it has nothing to do with socialism.
by sdinsn 8y ago
Nothing is socialist about this law, nor any other law California has. This law is stupid (and unconstitutional), but it has nothing to do with socialism.
- ciupicri 8y agoWebster's dictionary defines socialism as a form of society in which government owns or controls major industries. This law controls what happens in corporate boards.
- dragonwriter 8y agoThis law is socialist in the sense that having the corporate form in law is itself socialist, which is to say, not at all. Like most bourgeois identity politics, it is an effort to defend capitalism by distracting from proletarian class interests by instead shifting power around within the bourgeoisie while encouraging the proletariat to see that as progress for the “disadvantaged” by way of identity groups that have little to do with where the structural disadvantages of the capitalist system actually fall. I'm not sure how much of the outrage by defenders of “capitalism” is genuine ignorance, and how much is play-acting to help reinforce the charade.
- sdinsn 8y agoUm, no, that's not how Webster's defines it. > government owns or controls The definition is 'government (or the community) owns and controls'. Ownership by the masses is an absolute requirement for socialism, having a bit of control is not enough.