Would socialism work if it was enacted on a city by city basis?
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>>68125759
Socialism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZby_vxrJ0Q
>>68125759
sorry?? what's that? you say you're a fag???
I can't hear you over this music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKM1AAzeRCg
>>68126092
>>68126227
let me restate. Say you have a state, and each city in that state can choose what type of government they want to have. Could socialism then work if there was a small city that wanted to do it and the working class there was willing to pay for it?
>>68125759
>Would socialism work if it was enacted on a city by city basis?
No. Even hippie communes that try socialism end up being dirt poor fucking nightmares that people flee from, and these operate under the "best" circumstances.
>>68125759
this is like the 5th socialism thread thats up.
FUCK OFF SHILLS WE DON`t GIVE A FUCK.
>>68127325
No R-tard, I'm genuinely curious. It seems that socialism doesn't work on any scale.
>>68125759
No, large cities are too diverse. The only places we see any kind of socialism working are ethnically homogeneous.
>>68126402
I think it could work if the city consisted of people with a strong preexisting social network, where they actually cared about each other prior to adopting the system. Would probably need to be a small city.
I can't see it working in a scenario besides this, because the truth is most people don't really care about strangers.
>>68127458
then look into the catalogue for the other 4 threads available and stop spamming.
>>68127458
>R-tard
Oi! Back to red.dit, for you!
>>68125759
Good luck wrestling the tax money from the federal government.
>>68126402
no. i would just move to the next town over and pay lower taxes while still using all of your town's sweet sweet amenities.
>>68127458
>socialism doesn't work on any scale
It works on the family scale, and in ethnically homogeneous societies.
>>68127554 is correct when he says:
> it could work ... with a strong preexisting social network
Socialism is dependent on high levels of pre-existing social capital being present in society. This is the great irony of the post-modern Left. The Left's current social policies destroy social capital, making their economic policies unworkable. This is why socialism is heading towards collapse in the nordic countries which embraced post-modern Left-wing social theories (feminism, anti-racism, etc.).
>>68127588
Don't feel like it
>>68127615
Been there 3 times, can't figure it out, plus it's full of soft faggots. One of my friends lives and dies by reddit, and refuses to believe all the memes he enjoys passed through here months before. Don't crowd me in with those morons.
>>68127621
Good point.
>>68127697
Like work a 15 an hour gas pump job but because you're a resident of nextdoorville you don't have to have half your paycheck taken out?? I've thought about shit like that myself actually.
>>68127958
sorry, forgot the homogeneous thing. hahahahahaha fuck multiculti
>>68125759
Probably. Socialism works anywhere you have hard working people who like to have nice things and are willing to work hard to pay for them. Socialism leads to everything being cheaper through economies of scale, from essential services to consumer goods. As long as the city's economy is built on a broad, diverse base of manufacturing, agriculture, and technology, it wouldn't even need to be strictly socialist as long as it were centrally planned.
As long as you're willing to gulag or expel anyone who chooses not to participate, what's the problem? It's exactly on the same lines as libertarianism, if you have a group of people who are willing to compromise and form ad-hoc groups to solve every problem, your community will function.
The trouble hits when you want to, for example, put in curb and gutter. In a socialist society, you would simply take the money and pave the road, whether the people like it or not. As long as everyone is okay with paying for shit they don't like, there's no argument. Under anarcho-capitalism though, if one person doesn't want the road paved and the rest aren't willing to pay more to compensate, the road doesn't get redone. But as long as everyone consents to live that way, there's no argument. Anyone who doesn't want to live on a dirt road can leave.
