• JWayn596@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    A core tenant of socialism is a democratized workplace, being able to vote for your wage and company policy, like an Engineer choosing when to launch the rocket instead of some MBS degree.

    Last time I checked I dont think factory workers in China that make all our shit can do that.

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      4 hours ago

      Workplace democracy isn’t necessarily a core concept of Socialism, at least not in the Marxian sense. Removing the issues that come with the profit motive alleviates issues you describe. Instead, Marxists advocate for public ownership and central planning with extensive democratic controls, without necessitating competing democratic worker coops. Engels argued against such a concept in Anti-Dühring, actually, believing such a system to revert to Capitalism through competition and accumulation.

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      8 hours ago

      Which is also why socialism will never work. Humans are piss poor at evaluating the common good and making decisions collectively (see also: the last US election.)

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      16 hours ago

      Yes. That was the point of what they posted. None of those groups are what they claim to be beyond nominally.