Holy cow guy, pay attention. The question sets up a false choice between capitalism and socialism. It demonstrates a rank ignorance of macro economics.
Is the US economy getting more socialist over time, or less socialist over time?
More, as the entire world becomes more socialist in order to free up productive potential and allow the economy to continue to survive. But the gradual accumulation of “socialist” elements in the so-called mixed economy are only symptoms of the international class struggle that will eventually result in a social revolution that makes a qualitative break in the fundamental nature of the economy and identity of the ruling class.
Yes, more. Always more. Every day, every week, every month and every year, the left constantly makes the economy more socialist. Their plan is to shrink capitalism until it is small enough that they can drown it in a bathtub.
Like global warming?
Changing the subject?
Just trying to unpack your reply. Is there a direction to these "ebbs and flows" or is the level of socialism in our economy a "random walk?"
As for the rest of your post, how silly.
You seem to think everyone on the left is working together. On the contrary, there is a working-class left that is deliberately building socialism; a bourgeois left that cedes ground to the working-class left as a tactical means of blunting the class struggle; and a petty-bourgeois left that sees political opportunity in posturing as more radical than the bourgeois left (while often leading the workers down reactionary blind alleys) because they think they will always be able to call a halt before the tide of socialism engulfs their own property.
Commies, fellow travelers and useful idiots. How does that in any way refute what I said?
Ah, the "we must destroy the village in order to save it" strategy. How'd that work out for us in Vietnam?
Simple answer - the long run.
It suggests that building socialism is a plan for only some on the left and a consequence of capitalism for the rest.
No not at all the "we must destroy the village in order to save it strategy."
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Perhaps it would help if you understood what my point, you know, actually was. Your suggestion that we needed to implement socialist policies in order to "save capitalism" is the logical equivalent of the DOD suggesting we needed to napalm vietnam villages in order to "save them" from the commies. Socialism is to capitalism as napalm is to the village. Capitalism needs socialism the way villages need napalm. Napalm "fixes" villages the way socialism fixes capitalism. It's the absurdity of the two claim(s) that I am comparing…you starting to get my point yet?
