• Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
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    20 days ago

    There is no such thing as a mixed economy, either the principal mode of production benefits the working class or the bourgeois. It’s impossible to have a 50/50 and any other mix inevitably collapses towards one or the other.

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      20 days ago

      Of course there’s such a thing as a mixed economy. They made a whole Wikipedia article about it.

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        20 days ago

        It’s a concept, that makes no sense and deludes the meaning of the term socialism and capitalism so much that they become meaningless. It’s propagandistic newspeak.

        At the end of the day according to marxist political theory (AKA the guy who established the meaning of the term capitalism, so this carries some important weight), that doesn’t make sense, either the principal owner of the means of production is the working class, or not.

        Anything inbetween? completely capitalist, according to any socialist who has ever read theory.

        it does exist but all the concept does is sully discussions, make terms meaningless, and make you feel like a superior centrist.

        Socialism is simply democratization/worker ownership over the means of production. Mixed economies pretend that socialism is when the government does stuff, which is wildly inaccurate.

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          20 days ago

          Take it up with the profession of economics. They think it makes sense. I think it makes sense. You’re the only one confused by it.