"We got to face some facts... You don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism." Fred Hampton

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[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

As long as it's 100% grassroots voluntary libertarian-socialism, and not authoritarian top-down forced socialism like the USSR or Mao's China... if it's the latter then we just wind up in the same situation all over again!

But the former could be a way out of this authoritarian system we find ourselves in... it just takes cooperation and everyone doing their part to build a system that is so good it makes the old system obsolete

[–]copenseethe 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

So, you're saying that the wealth that is to be redistributed will be voluntarily surrendered rather than confiscated by force?

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No redistribution of wealth is necessary at all when everyone is self-sustaining and their freedoms aren't impinged upon

[–]copenseethe 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It would be wonderful if the world operated like this. Human nature is such that there are a LOT of people that do not wish to be self sustaining. They prefer to sustain themselves by leeching off the labor of other people.