“alexi navalni always talked about a beautiful russia of future”

WTF? the man ran a TV ad where he called Muslims cockroaches and pretended to shoot someone wearing a turban. His “vision” was white supremacy. He was convicted of hate speech. He founded and organized the biggest white supremacist festival in russia. navalni was worse than trump is.

yeah musk bezos zuck and co are douchebags but is what they are doing any worse than what fossil fuel companies have been doing for decades? no. Is it worse than the murder of thousands of union members that built the railroads or worked in the mines of usa? no. Carnegie, Ford, Forbes, and every other big money name all used violent repression to break strikes. Capitalism made big tech and they are playing by the same rules it has always had.

This “journalist” would side with litteral white supremacist fascist like navalni rather than point the finger at the real problem.

hahaha. and I wasted a good amount of time on that too. :P

Communism is the dream of a classless society where everyone is equal and receives an equal share of their fruits of their labor. Socialism is the process of moving towards Communism.

Real wages when compared to rising costs of living in norway have been stagnant for over a decade. Home ownership rates are still rather high but they have been decreasing steadily since their peak in 2007. How is that the state keeping capitalism in check? Sounds like it is just losing ground slower than other countries.

How have things been going for the Sami in norway? Are the high-ish living standards in Norway being maintained in part by continue exploitation of the indigenous peoples? How is that keeping capitalism in check?

Social democracy is capitalism with a facelift. Stalin once said. “social democracy is the moderate wing of fascism.”

The fact is that under social democrats or liberal democrats the rights of the rich to maintain and expand their wealth are always prioritised over the rights of workers to get a fair share of the wealth they produce. This is because the rich are able to pay to have their voices heard while the workers have little to no excess wealth.

As for "how society would operate and function under socialism " It would be much the same as it is now only the government would work for the betterment of the masses instead of the betterment of the few. Look at how things are in China and that is how society is under socialism. The government has raised living standards and life expectancy at an insane rate, businesses are taxed significantly and the government has a say on their operations. Most importantly when a rich person or company breaks the law they are held to account, they don’t get a slap on the wrist or a “cost of doing business” fine.

Socialism is a process and each situation requires different steps at different times and a different system to get it there but the idea of democratic centralism is really important as it cuts down on the capitalists playing 2 sides off each other.

If it isn’t going to be violent what do you intend to do with all the fascists and counter revolutionaries? Putting them in prisons will require violence. You gonna just leave them out there doing their thing?

Just because you don’t know what a word means does not make the word not useful. Just because ignorant people misuse the word does not make the word meaningless.

When politically illiterate people use the word liberal to mean “progressive” they are just showing their ignorance. Liberalism is “progressive” when compared to absolute monarchy but that’s not saying much.

Hexbear users most certainly do not mean “neoliberalism” when they say “liberal.” Don’t project your ignorance on other people. Hexbear is a politically literate community.

Instead of writing this horribly ignorant comment you should have just gone and looked up what Liberalism is. The definition is like 3 clicks away.

You don’t build a “cohesive coalition” by inviting anyone with any ideology. If people don’t share views any “coalition” will tear itself apart.