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In the current view of politics if the government runs something then
this is socialism. Yet we have already acceded to the socialist theory of
politics that says there is an adversary relationship between owners and
workers. It would appear, however, that cooperation is not surrender,
nor is cooperation socialism. But we have conflated the ideas of
cooperation and cooperative ownership with socialism because Marx set
up just two poles -- the workers/government own things or capitalists
own things. He never said that workers couldn't be capitalists. And so
not many people believe it is possible today.
Socialism is a theory of government ownership of the means of
production. If workers own a factory this is not socialism. It is merely
cooperative ownership. If the government runs an insurance program
this is not socialism but merely creating the greatest pool of insured to
make it work more efficiently.
Socialism is based on a theory that can't work, and the vague
proscriptions which Socialists themselves spout leads to too much
government control over the lives of the people. A place where
government has rights and power. But in a cooperative system the
government is merely a tool for the good of the entire society.
Where health care is concerned a socialist system where all the
doctors and nurses work for the government would be no good. But a
system where the government organizes an insurance pool for people to
have the money to seek the care that they want would be a cooperative
good.
We are in the current political spectrum view either for the
government to run things or for private industry to run things. But there
is precious little room for the cooperative theory of life -- where it can be
shown over and over again that people can naturally cooperate on big
projects yet still maintain control over their own individual
this is socialism. Yet we have already acceded to the socialist theory of
politics that says there is an adversary relationship between owners and
workers. It would appear, however, that cooperation is not surrender,
nor is cooperation socialism. But we have conflated the ideas of
cooperation and cooperative ownership with socialism because Marx set
up just two poles -- the workers/government own things or capitalists
own things. He never said that workers couldn't be capitalists. And so
not many people believe it is possible today.
Socialism is a theory of government ownership of the means of
production. If workers own a factory this is not socialism. It is merely
cooperative ownership. If the government runs an insurance program
this is not socialism but merely creating the greatest pool of insured to
make it work more efficiently.
Socialism is based on a theory that can't work, and the vague
proscriptions which Socialists themselves spout leads to too much
government control over the lives of the people. A place where
government has rights and power. But in a cooperative system the
government is merely a tool for the good of the entire society.
Where health care is concerned a socialist system where all the
doctors and nurses work for the government would be no good. But a
system where the government organizes an insurance pool for people to
have the money to seek the care that they want would be a cooperative
good.
We are in the current political spectrum view either for the
government to run things or for private industry to run things. But there
is precious little room for the cooperative theory of life -- where it can be
shown over and over again that people can naturally cooperate on big
projects yet still maintain control over their own individual