Yes, Bernie Sanders Was Really Asked to Leave a Hippie Commune in 1971 Because He Refused to Do Any Work

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[–]Chipit 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

Because under true socialism, people won't work. They'll live off others until the whole thing comes crashing down. That's why socialism doesn't work.

[–]Nemacolin 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

You are falling for the No True Scotsman fallacy. By your reasoning, if it works it cannot be "true" socialism. If it does not work, it is "true" socialism.

[–]Chipit 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Here's what happened a in real-live socialist system. Composed of true believers. They didn't just speak socialism, they lived it and breathed it. They didn't use any money, there weren't any cops. It's a great read, please have a look. https://pastebin.com/F0WGGewg

[–]RatherSmallPotato 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

"Daniel: The peasants of Guatemala who we were trying to help would say they had vegetables all the time. They'd come to the Farm and they'd decide they had it better down there."

Jesus Christ.

[–]Tiwaking 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

It's really hard to just say what the Farm was in a few sentences. It was a real experiment in living, a whole new thing. In some ways, of course, it had been done before - there were the Amish and other religious groups - but this was a modern- day bunch of people who were ex-college students. There were professionals and nonprofessionals and everybody mixed in together; and the reason they were there was that they all took psychedelic drugs. If that hadn't happened, the Farm wouldn't have been there.

Conservative Amish > Socialist Hippies