2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why Most Black Voters Still Aren't Feeling Sanders [View all]fasttense
(17,301 posts)It's not just about common ownership of the means of production. Communal ownership of the land is more a kind of communism than socialism. But it is a possibility under socialism too. As Karl Marx said : The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
There are so many variations on socialism and different ways to allow for worker empowerment, for the common person to control their own work, that to identify just one way is to close yourself off from all sorts of beautiful variations.
I just think of all the possibilities to live and work in harmony with the planet and with different people that I think our society is deformed. We could all be healthy, well fed and comfortable instead of fighting wars, police and each other. There is no need to have one person owning the wealth of nations while many others starve.
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. Karl Marx