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fasttense

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9. Ahhh, socialism is NOT about abolishing ownership of property

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Thu Nov 26, 2015, 12:09 PM

Nov 2015

That's Communism, you know like China.

Socialism is all about putting the means of production in the worker's hands. Letting the worker determine the distribution of the surplus or profits.

So, we can pay the capatalists for the means of production like they did when they freed the serfs in feudal Russia or we just take the property without compensation like we did when we freed the slaves.

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Socialism will deprive us of our hard-earned wealth and property: ( [View all] Ichingcarpenter Nov 2015 OP

My sentiments exactly TexasProgresive Nov 2015 #1

Yeahup..... daleanime Nov 2015 #2

I'd like to see how a graph of nations charts wealth. L. Coyote Nov 2015 #3

Are you 'the nation'? I'm not. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Nov 2015 #4

Oh, and here. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Nov 2015 #5

I actually have seen that posted without irony on du a couple times lately Doctor_J Nov 2015 #6

That paragraph is WAY, WAY to complicated to be understood pangaia Nov 2015 #7

Capitalism. SoapBox Nov 2015 #8

Ahhh, socialism is NOT about abolishing ownership of property fasttense Nov 2015 #9

Marx and Private Property TBF Nov 2015 #10

I just laugh these days Hydra Nov 2015 #11