You say empire like it’s a capitalist thing. Empires existed long before capitalism. I’m not trying to be a problem here, I fully support a transition away from Capitalism in many industries, but your black and white worldview pushed by emotions is just not helpful in the real world.
While capitalism has many problems, and bad problems at that, the alternatives all have their own significant problems as well. To me, a mixture of economic systems based on industry and necessity would result in the best outcome for people, which is my only real goal. Real estate should not be capitalist, the government should own all land or it should be handled as a communism system. Socialism works well for many other necessities, like utilities, basic food, healthcare, etc. I don’t mind capitalism remaining for luxuries, it does a good job in that style of market where it allows opportunity and flexibility that the other two systems can’t compete with.
So you want socialism as long as you can still have the exploitation under capitalism. Which are essentially saying is that you don’t want to give up the privileges the status quo has provided you.
This was specifically addressed in 1937 by Mao in Combat Liberalism:
Liberalism stems from petty-bourgeois selfishness, it places personal interests first and the interests of the revolution second, and this gives rise to ideological, political and organizational liberalism.
People who are liberals look upon the principles of Marxism as abstract dogma. They approve of Marxism, but are not prepared to practice it or to practice it in full; they are not prepared to replace their liberalism by Marxism. These people have their Marxism, but they have their liberalism as well–they talk Marxism but practice liberalism; they apply Marxism to others but liberalism to themselves. They keep both kinds of goods in stock and find a use for each. This is how the minds of certain people work.
The only comments excluded are the ones defending empire.
You say empire like it’s a capitalist thing. Empires existed long before capitalism. I’m not trying to be a problem here, I fully support a transition away from Capitalism in many industries, but your black and white worldview pushed by emotions is just not helpful in the real world.
While capitalism has many problems, and bad problems at that, the alternatives all have their own significant problems as well. To me, a mixture of economic systems based on industry and necessity would result in the best outcome for people, which is my only real goal. Real estate should not be capitalist, the government should own all land or it should be handled as a communism system. Socialism works well for many other necessities, like utilities, basic food, healthcare, etc. I don’t mind capitalism remaining for luxuries, it does a good job in that style of market where it allows opportunity and flexibility that the other two systems can’t compete with.
So you want socialism as long as you can still have the exploitation under capitalism. Which are essentially saying is that you don’t want to give up the privileges the status quo has provided you.
This was specifically addressed in 1937 by Mao in Combat Liberalism:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_03.htm