SOCIALISM AHOY!

[meggie7777]

so, i am now an official member of the boston socialist alternative! thom will be proud. before yesterday i never really read all those crazy revolutionary newspapers and had written all those groups off as stupid "we're-more-revolutionary-than-you" bullshit propoganda, but yesterday after the protest i sat down and read the entire socialist

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[darbydarbydarby]

socialism is not the answer.

[meggie7777]

that's true. but at least it's an improvement.

[grrr_betsy]

it's actually not an improvement. look at the state of things in socialist countries. the people aren't happy, the medical care is crap, the schools are shit. there is no motivation for any of it to improve because the people can't be selfishly motivated (as human nature dictates) to improve things for personal gain, whether that be the knowledge that they helped others or fiscal prosperity etc

[meggie7777]

yeah i wholeheartedly agree with its naive perception of human nature, but at the same time capitalism has only been around since what, the 16th century? something like that, so it's not THAT deeply embedded in us. but yeah, i agree that it's close to impossible...but i guess in that sense i'm an idealist. and you also make a good point about how economic diversity gives people something to work for, but in america today it almost seems completely futile to work to get richer because the "ruling class," if you will, keeps amassing more and more of the country's capital and exploiting the workers, so the opportunity of economic prosperity which once made america such an amazing country now is so completely slight, it might as well not exist. so while yeah, socialism would be next to impossible to actually implement, and of course it would have some negative repercussions, what it stands for -- equality of opportunity for everyone, ending oppression of poorer and underdeveloped countries and exploitation of workers both here and abroad