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In reply to the discussion: Dumb question: what's a Socialist? [View all]MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)23. I did read that before I posted
But I can't figure out what it means. I'm not the sharpest tool in the woodshed, so things like:
"A socialist economic system is based on the organisational precept of production for use, meaning the production of goods and services to directly satisfy economic demand and human needs where objects are valued based on their use-value or utility, as opposed to being structured upon the accumulation of capital and production for profit."
zing past my head. I need the Reader's Digest version!
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But... wouldn't a Capitalist say that Capitalism is about the greatest good for Society?
MannyGoldstein
Jul 2014
#3
Rather than "socialist person" or "socialist country", I think "socialist program".
delrem
Jul 2014
#6
What part of "the contemporary understanding of the term" do you not understand?
Jim Lane
Jul 2014
#36
IMO the total elimination of capitalism is neither possible, nor a goal worth pursuing. nt
delrem
Jul 2014
#15
This was posted on DU before, but it contains some aspects of both socialism and communism in it.
TexasTowelie
Jul 2014
#17
perhaps easier to say what it's not? And that is what we are living through/in.
NRaleighLiberal
Jul 2014
#24
Many of us would be satisfied with some reasonable oversight and regulation.
Enthusiast
Jul 2014
#42