If he does get offed then the populace will shrug it's shoulders. best case, we get mcdonnel after but I like to think labour has a backup plan in case corbyn get snuffed out.
Is it possible to achieve socialism in the modern world?
Brayden Ramirez
Brayden Brooks
Socialism and communism can succeed only when there is no hunger, no need and no envy. So a technologically advanced society of homogenous people with self sacrificing enlightenment.
Are you in such a society? Are you such a person? Socialism is a side effect not a political ideology. If you view it as an ideology, what you'll end up with is totalitarianism.
Evan Morris
clean your room
Josiah Miller
My wife cleans our house. I provide for my family. We both do our share and support each other while keeping complaints and our egos to a minimum.
Asher Phillips
For this you can just look at China/Laos/Vietnam.
Deng laid out the way on underdeveloped countries can achive Socialism. Those Countries were often exploited by Western Capitalist countries so they don't really had a own phase of Capitalism in their country. This concludes in underdeveloped Productive forces and weak infrastructure etc. Now, you shouldn't of course favor a Capitalist Government (That wont happen anyway why would capitalist now invest in the country if they can just exploit it from their countries). The key is to maintain a socialist Leadership that owns the Key industries and a private sector with special economic zones where Western Capitalist will invest and grow their industries. The will still be planned and all Capitalist industries will work for these goals and need to oblige to the state.
Jaxson Gomez
1) As always, times of major conflict and civil strife will leave the working class most disposed to radical change. Predilection toward major policy change (by force or legitimized procedure) is almost algorithmic: if things are so bad now that your living standards have noticeably depreciated, you will prefer change. The worse things get, the more you will seek reform. It's consumer preference as applied to political economy. Nothing especially mystical about it, but the real difficulty is figuring how that preference manifests: the people will usually be in favor of material (non-cultural, i.e. socialistic reforms opposed to the capitalist mode) changes, but sufficient propaganda and agitation may sway just enough popular support to simply swap out one capitalistic form for another, which is how we arrived at fascist and neoliberal "revolutions" or even the purely reactionary neofeudal movements which remained a threat well into the 20th century.
2) Socialism necessitates a full employment economy. Those in the financial sector will find work in productive or service industries, but you are correct in that many would be upset by such a change and in the main higher wage earners will be opposed to socialism. Exploitation in the third world makes working class revolution in the financial capitals seem less likely by the year. It is my belief that political economic crisis and collapse in several western countries and the total capitulation of American hegemony will absolutely be necessary before anything can be done for them. The good news is that this is on the horizon: it is only a matter of time.
3) It will be up to the good will of socialist states to devote resources, without hope of returns, to their comrades internationally. That may seem far fetched, but remember this was essentially the role of GOSPLAN for most of its existence, and it was wildly successful in bringing the totally undeveloped central Asian nations of the USSR to an unprecedented level of health, education and general prosperity. Modern nations which are suffering the most from poverty could certainly still benefit from the equity and liberty that socialism entails, but they cannot be expected to drag themselves from degradation all on their own, no matter their political economic model.
4) I sincerely believe that at this point in time our last best hope is a deliberate, non spontaneous revolution conducted mostly through reform, God willing, countries with socialist actors and legal foundations with economic and cultural preeminence such as China and India will reobtain a Marxian program, but that will only be probable when neoliberalism has definitively failed. I know this sounds ☭TANKIE☭, but whatever your ideas of the socialist model, our praxis in regard to opposing and retiring capitalism ought to be the same: support agents, be they individuals or state entities, that actively diminish the economic security and power of first the United States, then it's NATO allies, and secondarily support measures at home and especially abroad in major competing and soon-to-be dominant world powers for public ownership, workers rights, civil rights, and working class control of government.
Xavier Green
Just admit it, comrades
lmaoing @ ur life. The main lesson of history is that nobody learns any lessons from history.