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Am i a communist when i prefer a government to operate and provide basic services like the public transport system, the postal system, the telecommunication/int
by lagrange77 2y ago
Am i a communist when i prefer a government to operate and provide basic services like the public transport system, the postal system, the telecommunication/internet service or prisons either paid by taxes or by fees, that don't generate profit beyond paying the costs, instead of using taxes to rescue bankrupt banks and companies?
EDIT: Oh and hospitals!
- layer8 2y agoNo. That's not even socialist.
- manquer 2y ago> Am i a communist Even if you were, is that really a bad thing? Why do we demonize communism (and socialism ) so much ? Poor implementation in Soviet Union or in PRC that is only seen through the color of propaganda with the inherent cultural and ideological biases is hardly a good basis for judging a movement that was a response to centuries of extreme worker exploitation in direct result industrialization and raise of machines. Are there really bad ideas in socialism ? yes of course, there are bad ideas in late stage capitalism or in any free market system or any system. We learn and try to take to best from all economic systems not demonize any of them.
- lagrange77 2y ago> Even if you were, is that really a bad thing? I noticed, that it sounded like that after i submitted the comment. Was not intended. > Are there really bad ideas in socialism ? yes of course, there are bad ideas in late stage capitalism or in any free market system or any system. I totally agree.
- _19qg 2y agoOtto von Bismarck introduced much of the social safety net in Germany, incl. health insurance (in 1883). He definitely was not a communist. He once called it "practical christianity" ("praktisches Christentum").
- ossobuco 2y agoAfter all Jesus was a proto-socialist, wasn't he?
- lagrange77 2y agoYes, he doesn't exactly come across as an Airpods-wearing Wall Street yuppie.
- Ylpertnodi 2y agoAh, socialism. Well, that's what we call it.