On Centralized Planning and Centralized Wealth (Original Content)
Centralized wealth and centralized planning have one thing in common. The power is concentrated in the hands of the few at the expense of the many. Whether it's the Comrade Party Leader or Corporate CEO, one thing holds true, they will extract the surplus value of your Labor, enrich themselves further, and pass laws that extract more wealth, and then tell you its for your own good. Soviet Union or United States, it makes no difference when you have little say in policy, nor enough time to try and say it because you're too busy feeding your family.
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And one of the points were that Bernie Sanders, regardless of calling himself a socialist, and implement a socialist society. Of course not! Bernie is a populist, and due to pragmatism, he is my choice! I don't hold any illusions that this will transform society radically. I only hope that he will change society for the better. And so, was one of my responses:
Depending on whom you speak with, whether anarchist or Marxist, socialism has an explicit meaning - which isn't compatible within a capitalist society. To the former, socialism is the end phase of a classless, stateless society, where the producers collectively own the means of production and the fruits of their labor (even the individualists and mutualists fall in this camp, just disagree to what means "private property"
, and the latter, which is the intermediate stage between capitalism and communism, where the state is utilized to affect revolution, replacing the capitalists with a Party Vanguard towards a classless, stateless society. Of course, I'm with the former as the Bolsheviks have shown, that their dictatorship should be supported over the capitalist dictatorship; never mind that they were extractors of surplus value, and thus, capitalists in and of themselves.
