WTF does this even mean?
Not to be confused for a totalitarian nostalgist, I would support a kind of socialism that would be democratic and aimed primarily at decommodifying labor, reducing the vast inequality brought about by capitalism, and breaking capital’s stranglehold over politics and culture.
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Aletheia101:
We don't need private companies. Never did. Public non-profits can outcompete them on everything -- price, value, wages, working conditions, the environment. Everything.
Private, for-profit companies can't compete with them on any of that. Their need for profits and the desire to accrue vast fortunes for ownership renders that impossible.
I Tully:
Sounds nice but it has never happened anywhere.
Aletheia101:
It's never happened because the super-rich won't allow it. They protect their power, wealth and privilege at all costs.
But when we the people eventually wise up, that's all gonna end. The sooner the better. And if we wait too long, the Earth is going to make that decision for us.
I Tully:
Maybe we can at least agree that you're suggesting something that has never happened and has no track record anywhere in human history.
Aletheia101:
Yes, we can agree to that. Doesn't mean it can't work, though. By definition, when things are tried for the first time, they never had that track record, etc. etc. Obviously.
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And there you have it - the insanity of the left: "We are the people we've been waiting for..."
Also once commonly referred to as bafflegab...”Incomprehensible and/or pretentious language, especially bureaucratic jargon”...
Related to the old saw “If you can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with bovine excrement”...
Used by persons of average or slightly lower IQ possessing some credential or diploma, etc, often gained by nature of race or gender or any of the myriad other preference criteria, to demonstrate their intellectual bona fides to us lesser beings...
And prove thereby standing to lecture the rest of us and steer us to proper life path...
Exemplars especially abound in government, science, media, academe, and Hollywood...