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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2. Money is power and power corrupts. Trump is playing with fire at the moment as his policy will cost the wealthiest people in the US trillions. They will not take that lightly. I fear that if he looks like winning a second term these powers will act and the President will die.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
That first sentence is absolutely the key to all this. Welcome to anarchocommunism. And Trump’s got a bunch of the establishment heads fighting, if any good can come from his palingenetic-authoritarian ass, it’s that. Unfortunately, he’s still with *most* of those oligarchs
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If it worked i would be on the barricades now! Trump threatens not only business elites, but deep state. The head of GCHQ, UK equivalent of the NSA resigned, just after Trump was elected. It leads me to think that the surveillance of his campaign wad run from the UK.
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Trump benefits the vast majority of business elites, and is also a fan of the security state. He only threatens particular industries in the short-term, as well less extreme sectarians
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