Capitalism has only been around since the 1800s, and humans have been hating and killing people different from them for thousands of years.
I’m a socialist is well, but I don’t like how many people see socialism as a silver bullet for everything. I think it’s dangerous.
If we take socialism just to mean something like “workers are the ones who own the means of production; they take part in decision making and share the profits”, that doesn’t mean everything else will be solved. Some people will still be bigoted. Those (worker owned) companies will still have ads because they’ll still want to make money*. A lot might still give no fucks about the environment and keep polluting. And if it’s still a hierarchical system, there’s no reason those in power wouldn’t try to abuse that system, try to profit from it, oppress people, start wars, etc.
Obviously the ads aren’t as bad as the rest, that feels a little out of place. I just mentioned it because I’ve had and seen conversation where people seem to think that marketing and advertising would go away without capitalism.
Capitalism has only been around since the 1800s, and humans have been hating and killing people different from them for thousands of years.
I’m a socialist is well, but I don’t like how many people see socialism as a silver bullet for everything. I think it’s dangerous.
If we take socialism just to mean something like “workers are the ones who own the means of production; they take part in decision making and share the profits”, that doesn’t mean everything else will be solved. Some people will still be bigoted. Those (worker owned) companies will still have ads because they’ll still want to make money*. A lot might still give no fucks about the environment and keep polluting. And if it’s still a hierarchical system, there’s no reason those in power wouldn’t try to abuse that system, try to profit from it, oppress people, start wars, etc.