• @General_Effort
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    13 hours ago

    Still sounds like Ayn Rand and not socialism.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      12 hours ago

      It sounds like a European soviet republic. Most of them were working reasonably well and were really good at preventing poverty but were stuck in-between being exploited by Russia and artificially cut off from half the world (big reason why they had to fail). Those countries solved problems progressive western democracies couldn’t ever solve, for example gender wage inequality (to the point it endures today). Unfortunately all of us in the „west” are stuck in a death spiral after US and Russia went tits up in the 70s/80s. Maybe we’ll have another go once this is finally done.

      • @General_Effort
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        11 hour ago

        I’m not sure what you are trying to say here. Do you think that soviet states would have negotiated with owners of private property before using it for public benefit?

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          52 minutes ago

          No, why would they? There’s a difference between strong taking from the weak and community taking surplus from everyone.