cup-a-fear:kropotkhristian:goodzillo:laughy-saphy:runofthemillsocialist:God forbid.It’s almost as if
cup-a-fear:kropotkhristian:goodzillo:laughy-saphy:runofthemillsocialist:God forbid.It’s almost as if they want poor people to have a decent quality of life or somethingis this supposed to be an indictment? yes, we want people to be able to get health care. yes, we want to prevent starving children. yes, we want to invest in the new generation so they’re educated and not crippled by debt. yes, we fucking want to take care of the elderly. why the fuck don’t they? god fucking damnitI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if your critique of socialism is basically “they want to give you free stuff!” - like, yeah, absolutely true, and thanks for the free press because that sounds good as hellI feel like one line of argument which might be used to sway people who might be swayed by the argument above would be to show that, like with most critiques of socialism, it’s just projection, and it’s capitalism which ensures that one class of people (the bourgeoisie) lives for free on the labour of other people (the working class),- and in the case of working class people receiving free things from a welfare state, it’s mostly just a case of surplus value being returned to who it was produced by -- source link