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Gregorian

(23,867 posts)
Sat Apr 9, 2016, 11:47 AM Apr 2016

If you don't like capitalism or state socialism, what do you want?

This is so good I've tried to distill it and can't. I will say it's an overview of who and what America is.

"...a design principal for a radically decentralized community building cooperative system". A community ownership system that doesn't look like capitalism or state socialism which begins with community, and works backwards from there.



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If you don't like capitalism or state socialism, what do you want? (Original Post) Gregorian Apr 2016 OP
Democratic socialism HassleCat Apr 2016 #1
And it rules out violence or repressive coercion as a means to change, iirc. Adsos Letter Apr 2016 #2
 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
1. Democratic socialism
Sat Apr 9, 2016, 11:54 AM
Apr 2016

Democratic socialism is not "true" socialism because it does not demand state ownership of all enterprises, but it does seek to emulate socialism by using the power of the government to regulate private enterprise for the benefit of the workers and the general public.

Adsos Letter

(19,459 posts)
2. And it rules out violence or repressive coercion as a means to change, iirc.
Sat Apr 9, 2016, 12:35 PM
Apr 2016

Hence the democratic part.

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