Linux isn’t hard anymore because I have ChatGPT to come up with all the command lines for me. And they work 60% of the time!

The data surrounding cooperatives don’t appear to indicate any danger to large firms and other Capitalist entities dominating markets.

Can I see that data?

Since I’m sure you’re arguing in good faith here and have actually looked at some data, and you’re not just making things up.

I didn’t write any insults. I attacked your arguments. I said they were reminiscent of Jordan Peterson’s word salad. I’m saying you aren’t saying anything of substance. You’re stringing a bunch of lofty concepts together in an attempt to sound smart, but you aren’t saying anything at all.

I think that’s what Marx was doing at many times too, but unfortunately some people are incapable of questioning it and instead just repeat it verbatim.

No, socialism is when the people own the means of production. That doesn’t require national borders, nor do I take your trolling response to be a positive indicator of arguing in good faith.

Socialism is a gradual process towards Communism.

This was the lie that Lenin told the Soviet to quell their questions about “why aren’t we doing any of the things Marx said we have to do?”

Marx used socialism and communism as synonyms.

A worker cooperative does not endanger the Capitalist system nor move agaInst it,

You sure about that? A bunch of people choosing to not give money to capitalists “does not endanger the capitalist system”? Think about that.

Dialectical Materialism asserts that material reality drives the progression of history, and is the primary determiner of ideas, but that these ideas of humans influence them to reshape reality. This process works in endless spirals.

This reads like the word salad Jordan Peterson spews. It’s vague and doesn’t make any sense. Here’s a better image.

The working class threatened the elite’s power.

Instead of thinking that big ideas or beliefs drive history,

So dialectical materialism rejects the notion of ideologies like socialism?

This seems needlessly arbitrary and reductive. Socialism exists all around us, it isn’t defined by a country’s borders.

But in another comment you referred to the USSR as “the world’s first socialist state”, yet it existed in the broader global capitalist machine. You have contradicted yourself. Which is it? Can socialism exist in a world with capitalism, or not?

By that logic, socialism cannot exist until the entire planet is socialist.

Lisa’s only mistake was saying yes.

Just do every single thing in socialism, but change every single word. Call it Americanism.

Proletariat? No, just “worker”.

Bourgeoisie? No, just “elites”.

Capital? “Stuff”. Like how in baseball they say a pitcher’s got good “stuff”. Use your human stuff.

Class Consciousness - “common sense”.

Dialectical Materialism - Idk I’m still trying to figure out wtf that one means.

Stop using polysyallabic words like “proletariat” when trying to appeal to the American working class who read at a 5th grade level.

Seriously. Like the guy in Severance said. Apologize for the word. It’s too long.

In a democratic state, things like universal healthcare are also called “socialized medicine” because it is an example of the people owning the means of production in that particular industry.

That’s why most countries are what we call “mixed economies”, that mix elements of capitalism and socialism.

Norway mixes in a higher ratio of socialism to capitalism than most countries. But they don’t export any more of capitalism’s issues to the third world than other countries. It’s something to emulate, not discredit.