Fascism is the unofficial/official enforcement arm of modern capitalism. You can't write off exploitation as an exception to an otherwise good system, the system requires exploitation in order to function.
If the US went socialist after the second world war, you have all of the resources and talent necessary to invent all of the advances in computing that happened. US had such a huge advantage after WW2 that it was inevitable they would outpace the Soviets in some areas. Even then it wasn't that much of an advantage all things considered, Soviet military was pretty much at parity with American military techwise.
Adam Clark
A definition everyone can probably agree on:
A socioeconomic system directly proceeding capitalism where the previous working class have seized the productive forces of society and directed production toward use rather than exchange.
Ayden Perez
Are you actually fucking retarded?
Jeremiah Diaz
this
Connor Scott
A lot of socialists get triggered by it doesn't explicitly state the absence of wage labor or production for exchange.
Which is silly, because worker control of the means of production necessarily brings about the absence of wage labor and production for exchange.
Liam Lewis
It literally is, your feelings are not relevant to whether the definition still stands or not.
Eli Carter
I remember when a girl in my class defined communism as "when the government puts a gun to your head and says vote for us or we'll kill you". Good times. The teacher then corrected her by saying "no, its when everyone gets paid the same"
John Walker
What you're thinking of is probably the abolition of commodity production, which would mean that things are no longer produced to be exchanged, but are produced only for their use value. Production for use, not for exchange.
There's also the abolition of wage labour, which would mean that labour power is no longer a commodity, as it is under capitalism.
Jace Adams
Basically unless you can make an infographic telling people they can keep their iphone under socialism, they won't listen.
Parker Flores
oh great another spooked ass sectarian christfag Listen to people here ffs
