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socialism is a politics of resource allocation. period. it's not about "making you live a certain way" any more than any other social order is. you "live a certain way" in the reactionary united states already. you support a politics of resource allocation that privileges military and police procurement, that prefers incarceration as a mechanism for addressing class conflict, the has developed a quite efficient form of soft authoritarian cultural domination one effect of which is that people often don't have even a rudimentary understand of either the order they live in or what alternatives to that order might look like. it's all just one happy stream of consumer options and everyone is a happy consumer and feels all free-like because they can buy commodities that help them pretend they're unique---that many many many people buy the same commodities and feel the sense sense of being unique in the same way doesn't matter because in amurican consumer-land, it's all about you. and anything that forces you to think about something that's not you is socialism. that's wrong.
what forces you to think about something that's not you is awareness.
it is of no consequence what your fantasies about democratic or any other form of socialism are. those fantasies are based on a wholesale misunderstanding of the term being discussed in the thread. it's like trying to talk with someone who confuses ayn rand with a philosopher. the errors are so basic that it's often just a waste of time.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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