There is a big question about “who gets power” and people don’t know and we don’t have answers. Right now plutocrats own and control the news and social media, control the government and the courts and the legislation through lobbying and control all the economic power in the world.
Ask communists on lemmy and they’ll endlessly wax about theory but how do we, on a practical level, assert power over all that? They are honestly stuck in the 1940s and instead want to “rehabilitate Stalin” lol. There is a point to be made that we need a state to use violence against the capitalist power structures. But the old recipe of the great purge, millions of deaths and a chilling effect had already failed. The USSR failed even before the cold war. We lack ideological alternatives and oldschool communists are stuck in reactionary thinking just like conservatives.
Like news media should have some kind of public utility endowment and be democratically run by the workers their electing their own bosses. Social media needs to be properly moderated with lots of paid moderators. Lobbying and advertising needs to be banned largely. So once people are actually well informed and not terrorized daily, then we can have a little democracy again.
But we also need better democratic and voting system in themselves. We should have an independent “economent” government part that we control through internet. Like a big bank where you can vote for what gets funded. Where you can fund to raise or lower prices in this or that or push for more housing etc.
But we’re not just completely behind in power but also have no good worked out ideas to implement anything better. The smartest people should be working on this but instead are brainwashed and hired by the richest people.
Anyway, sorry for the long rant lol. Meme’s like OP piss me off. You’re right, people are not really becoming more socialist. Besides that, we also have a massive conservative propagandist effort aimed at young people on youtube and social media. The youth now won’t be better than the boomers.
There is a big question about “who gets power” and people don’t know and we don’t have answers. Right now plutocrats own and control the news and social media, control the government and the courts and the legislation through lobbying and control all the economic power in the world.
Ask communists on lemmy and they’ll endlessly wax about theory but how do we, on a practical level, assert power over all that? They are honestly stuck in the 1940s and instead want to “rehabilitate Stalin” lol. There is a point to be made that we need a state to use violence against the capitalist power structures. But the old recipe of the great purge, millions of deaths and a chilling effect had already failed. The USSR failed even before the cold war. We lack ideological alternatives and oldschool communists are stuck in reactionary thinking just like conservatives.
Like news media should have some kind of public utility endowment and be democratically run by the workers their electing their own bosses. Social media needs to be properly moderated with lots of paid moderators. Lobbying and advertising needs to be banned largely. So once people are actually well informed and not terrorized daily, then we can have a little democracy again.
But we also need better democratic and voting system in themselves. We should have an independent “economent” government part that we control through internet. Like a big bank where you can vote for what gets funded. Where you can fund to raise or lower prices in this or that or push for more housing etc.
But we’re not just completely behind in power but also have no good worked out ideas to implement anything better. The smartest people should be working on this but instead are brainwashed and hired by the richest people.
Anyway, sorry for the long rant lol. Meme’s like OP piss me off. You’re right, people are not really becoming more socialist. Besides that, we also have a massive conservative propagandist effort aimed at young people on youtube and social media. The youth now won’t be better than the boomers.