That’s socialism. It should be noted socialism is a very broad spectrum of ideologies, and they primarily fail at being implemented in the first place, not at being maintained.
Liberalism is difficult to implement as it requires the powers that be to relinquish some power to capitalists and the middle class, however when both those groups started holding significant economic power liberalism could succeed in many parts of the world.
Socialism is harder to achieve as there are no large economic powers that gain from it. Greedy corps, governments, and individuals all oppose its implementation and therefore it’s difficult. There’s also the issue of organizing everyone and all that.
So no, you don’t seem to quite understand. Socialism doesn’t fail, nor is always organized into communes, and “socialist democrats” describe socialists.
Things need to change and sitting on our hands and saying that changing the system in any way won’t work is extremely counter productive.
Also, it has become clear that capitalism can’t maintain democracies for all that long. It’s not a stable system. The few accrue wealth and property and create oligopolies which destabilize the systems we depend on, leading to the slow decline of social and liberal democracies worldwide. Capitalism needs to go.
Edit: Basically what I’m saying is that you don’t know the definitions of the words you are using. “Communist states” are largely not communist. They are often state capitalist or some degree of a planned economy. The workers don’t own squat. Most socialists I know don’t argue in favor of anything similar to china or the soviet union, but actual democratic socialist states. While many want revolutions we also generally work towards reforms and unionizing since a revolution requires some popular support.
All positive aspects of liberal states are socialist policies implemented by socialist politicians or forced through by unions. Usually unions. I therefore personally favor forms of socialism that lean into the union part such as syndicalism. Might be worth having a look at that if you want to learn what socialism is.
That’s socialism. It should be noted socialism is a very broad spectrum of ideologies, and they primarily fail at being implemented in the first place, not at being maintained.
Liberalism is difficult to implement as it requires the powers that be to relinquish some power to capitalists and the middle class, however when both those groups started holding significant economic power liberalism could succeed in many parts of the world.
Socialism is harder to achieve as there are no large economic powers that gain from it. Greedy corps, governments, and individuals all oppose its implementation and therefore it’s difficult. There’s also the issue of organizing everyone and all that.
So no, you don’t seem to quite understand. Socialism doesn’t fail, nor is always organized into communes, and “socialist democrats” describe socialists.
Things need to change and sitting on our hands and saying that changing the system in any way won’t work is extremely counter productive.
Also, it has become clear that capitalism can’t maintain democracies for all that long. It’s not a stable system. The few accrue wealth and property and create oligopolies which destabilize the systems we depend on, leading to the slow decline of social and liberal democracies worldwide. Capitalism needs to go.
Edit: Basically what I’m saying is that you don’t know the definitions of the words you are using. “Communist states” are largely not communist. They are often state capitalist or some degree of a planned economy. The workers don’t own squat. Most socialists I know don’t argue in favor of anything similar to china or the soviet union, but actual democratic socialist states. While many want revolutions we also generally work towards reforms and unionizing since a revolution requires some popular support.
All positive aspects of liberal states are socialist policies implemented by socialist politicians or forced through by unions. Usually unions. I therefore personally favor forms of socialism that lean into the union part such as syndicalism. Might be worth having a look at that if you want to learn what socialism is.