No it isn’t. Not unless the government is controlled by the working class, which it isn’t.

But he’s not implementing socialist policy, he’s implementing fascist policy.

Government owning the means of production is only socialism if the working class controls the government, which is demonstrably not true in the slightest. Instead we have capitalists controlling the government, and when the capitalist class exerts its power over the government to directly seize more ownership of the means of production, that is fascism (or at least often a hallmark of fascism).

They like it because it virtue signals that they are a wealthy fascist, and love to “own the libs.”

Conservatives have to demonize socialism because they know it’s the only possible thing that could pose a realistic threat to their greedy, cruel and self-serving lifestyles.

I went to the States and got Pocahontas’s Revenge.

Online forums definitely have the power to shape discourse. The resurrection of socialism is proof of that. Before the internet, socialism was a dirty word in America, and now any political thread will have socialists in it.

It’s not that one person makes a difference, it’s the constant exposure achieved by many people posting similar arguments.

Stopping doing those things would mean stopping doing capitalism, and these people would rather we all die than that.

How can democracy exist when industries control the economy? When a business can just decide to pull out of a town and put tens of thousands of people out of work, how does “one person, one vote” have any meaning whatsoever? True power is held by those who control the economy.

Democracy is fundamentally incompatible with the economic systems based on inequality like capitalism. Democracy can only meaningfully exist in a classless society. And until that is achieved, democracy is best achieved by those societies who only allow the working class to hold political power.

Well yeah, he’s a billionaire, of course he looks after his own class’s interests.

We already knew all of that. The problem is that under capitalism, the rich make the rules. Until we supplant the capitalist class with a working class government, we will continue to see policies that put money ahead of people.

Democracy is fundamentally incompatible with capitalism.

We’d certainly all be better off if we had governments like China’s.

In colder climates you actually have to plan to eat preserved food until late spring, when everything that started growing when the snow melted has finally started to produce food.

Our natural state is to exist in collective communities. It is only capitalism that has atomized us into individuals competing against everyone else.

Well obviously a revolution cannot succeed without mass class consciousness, and secondly, vanguard parties are made up of the working class, not elites. You can look at the Worker’s Party of Belgium for an example of how to build a modern vanguard party within a capitalist system that maintains the trust of the working class. For example, their members are not allowed to live on more than the average Belgian wage, even if they are high earners. The extra money gets put back in their coffers to perform mutual aid work, such as their large network of medics and doctors.

Socialists should actually just have a revolution and rewrite the constitution to prevent reactionaries like the DNC and GOP from ever holding political power ever again.

According to the article, (which is very light on details and rambles on about the political implications instead - thanks corporate media) the restrictions are just for single family homes. So this will help stabilize housing prices for people who are already well off, and instead push these equity firms to focus on cheaper housing like apartments, so that the working class can be squeezed even more.

Homegrown capitalists and the states they control are far more profligate and effective at social media manipulation than either Russia or China. Don’t forget that it was Facebook and Cambridge Analytica that made Brexit happen, not Russia or China. Although I guess you did say dictatorships, so that includes the dictatorship of capital that rules the west.

Why do you think there’s unfettered mergers and monopolies? That’s right, it’s capitalism.