If my only point was to demonstrate that the disappearance of the middle class and rising income inequality started during the Reagan years, why the f**k would I need a more recent graph? I’m showing you graphs that show the late 1970s to the 2010s.
What I want is equal access to natural resources, collectivized and democratized workplaces and equal consumption. So no, it’s not that nobody owns anything, it’s that everything is possessed and managed in common.
Both were market socialist/state capitalist economies where enterprises were mostly managed by the state and production was centrally planned. I’m talking about bottom-up organization, not top down. What I want is not like anything the Soviet economies did. They literally abandoned workplace democracy. Look up “Workers Opposition”.
It’s currently working in the Zapatista autonomous rebel territories in Chiapas. They follow a libertarian socialist model with decentralized government.
Working with them does not designate ownership under the capitalist system, they become the property of the ruling class. Twenty percent of the world’s population control 86 percent of its resources.
YOU SAID “CAPITALISM
IS FREEDOM” —; THE FACT THAT YOU ARE DEPRIVED OF THE NATURAL RESOURCES OF THE EARTH BY PRIVATE OWNERS AND HAVE TO SELL YOUR LABOR TO THEM IN ORDER TO HAVE YOUR HUMAN NEEDS MET DETERMINED THAT WAS A LIE.
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