It’s made my lemmy experience better, thank you. 😘
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iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 5 months agoYou say, “I’ve not encountered a communist…”, like that is a good thing. Let me fix that for you
I’m a communist. Companies would be better off if they were owned by workers rather than rich people. You know, workers owning the means of production, instead of capitalists?
Hopefully this hasn’t ruined your Lemmy experience!
reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I mean workers could own the majority of company stocks and be the share holders in a twisted sense of communism.
discozombie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sort of along the same vein - as unions grew weak in Australia a different way to represent workers was needed. Industry Superannuation funds were created. Workers pay into these retirement funds which in turn invest in the companies. These funds now represent the investors interest in the companies the investors work at.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 5 months ago
There are certain kinds of market socialism that are intended to work this way I think, still have companies and markets and the familiar structures of a capitalist system but turn all the companies into worker co-operatives
vsh@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Hopefully you learn economics some day.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Yes, this is the popular side of lemmy communism. When people say they are bothered by Lemmy’s politics, they are talking about tankies and campists who seem more interested in simping for shitty autocrats and making tyrants into folk heroes than engaging seriously with contemporary political science.