That being said, modern Marxists don’t support the policies that led to so many deaths, bc they aren’t needed by socialism— the biggest tragedies were just bad agriculture No specific course of gov’t action is *needed* for socialism beyond the state not suppressing labor anymore
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
3. The issue the wealth and power of the elite remains. How to align their interests with the rest of us? Venice is the only state to do this over an extended period. Read Julius Norwich history of Venice. Brilliant book, especially the section on how Doges were elected!
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
In any properly (market) socialist system, the only rich would have received their money through their own labor or art, rather than through their property ownership. The main thing socialism objects to is the ability of owners to continue profiting massively without labor.
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
4. Need a more contemporary example? Look at the wage increases in Hungary over the last decade. I was in Budapest last year and business managers were lamenting high pay increases and the difficulty of recruitment. Want to help workers, stop immigration.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
The notion you’re suggesting is that you have to hurt some workers to help other workers, while restricting the freedoms of both in the process. But a much more direct solution that does NOT have these effects is known— strengthening unions internationally.
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
2. If you want to support overseas workers, use tariffs. Countries with high labour standards pay lower tariffs, those with poor or no Labour standards, put a higher tariff in place.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
Ok, I’m not opposed to using that as an element of it, but I haven’t seen any politicians willing to do that. And if you try to raise labor standards in a country with low standards, my country tends to send CIA your way.
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Replying to @OhNoIts2016 @KEEMSTAR and
1. I can think of only one. Trump! Yes there are forces arrayed against this view, this is the Left's opportunity and it should seize it. For most of history the largest source of revenue came fro Tariffs and duties not personal taxation.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
Trump’s China tariffs have nothing to do with low labor standards, he wants their share of the deficit cut. If he had so much as announced labor standards as a reason for the tariffs, I’d support them, but that’s not the pressure he wants to apply.
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
True! Trump sees it from a different viewpoint. Industrial strength is military strength at rest, without this underlying strength it doesn't matter if you have the biggest armed forces. Your opponent will out produce you and you will lose just as Germany and Japan did in WW2.
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Germany and Japan didn’t lose for “lack of military strength,” they were freaking imperial death cults, they OOZED military strength. (Nazis actually invented privatization, as a means of rapidly building up the military.) They lost because they each declared war on two fronts.
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