You believe in a society where individuals enjoy both personal freedom and collective ownership, aiming for a more equitable distribution of resources and power.
Libertarian Socialism is a political philosophy that advocates for the abolition of both the state and capitalism, favoring a society based on voluntary, cooperative institutions. These institutions would be owned and managed democratically by the people who use them or work in them. Libertarian Socialism is also known as left-libertarianism, socialist libertarianism, or anarchism. It is a broad category of political philosophies, which oppose authoritarian state intervention in the lives of individuals, while also opposing the injustice of economic inequality, which they believe is perpetu…
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@ISIDEWITH7mos7MO
How might your perspective on success change in a society where collective well-being is the priority?
@9LBNHGN6mos6MO
People being happy is good but also our economy is important
@9LBNR336mos6MO
I think success would be defined different since you now have different goals.
I think that this would positively affect many people because our well beings would be better and more taken care of.
@9LBNHMJ6mos6MO
Libertarian socialists tend to see the working class as agents of social revolution, reject representative democracy and electoralism, and advocate for self-organisation and direct action as means to engage in class conflict.
@ISIDEWITH9mos9MO
How do you define freedom in your life, and how might that change under a different social system?
@9HT3BYY9mos9MO
I think that for my freedom it is to be able to express without fear of being judged, obviously with due respect for other people and opinions
@9HWGZML9mos9MO
I agree with the statement to a point. I don't think freedom means having no fear of judgement. We have the freedom to jump out of a airplane, that doesn't mean we won't get hurt. Same with freedom of speech. You have the freedom to say whatever you want, but that does not mean everyone will like it or agree or feel tolerant towards it. But we have the freedom to say it anyways. We, clearly in view of our laws, do not have the freedom to do whatever we want. So speak all you like, but if the words turn to action and that action breaks the law, your freedoms end pretty quickly.
@9HT4BPCWomen’s Equality9mos9MO
the ability to do stuff and have the freedom to do so and under a social system I cant js do whatever. there's still laws obviously and rules we have to follow kind of like they say in school but bigger rules that apply to adults and EVERYONE.
@9HT36HS9mos9MO
Freedom is my ability to live how i want to. it may change and be more challenging
@ISIDEWITH7mos7MO
What motivates you to help others, and would these motivations increase in a more cooperative society?
@9LBNK556mos6MO
I think its okay and helping others is what makes you human
@9LBNTLKWomen’s Equality6mos6MO
I think in a more cooperative society, I would feel more inclined to help others. Even now I do what I can for those who are less fortunate and spread awareness where I can.
@9LBNWMQ6mos6MO
The thing that motivates me to help others is self gain. This would help literally everyone.
@9LBNKRS6mos6MO
Jesus motivated me to help others, this motivation would increase if more people would accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
@ISIDEWITH7mos7MO
Can you describe a time when working in a team led to a better outcome than working individually?
@9LFQMZW6mos6MO
When I was doing a science project we was able to finish faster by working together than by ourselves
@9LKM2MR6mos6MO
Yes, with team building skills and collaboration through working with creative differences work can be finish to all of everyone's best of ability along with different perspectives on how to get the work done more efficiently.
@9LFQGF46mos6MO
Libertarian socialists advocate the empowerment of individuals to control their own lives and encourage them to voluntarily cooperate, rather than allow themselves to be controlled by a state.
@9LHRM5VJustice party member6mos6MO
Important decisions are made by the officials that earned their spot towards the top. Simply letting anyone run a muck doing what they see fit is borderline anarchy
@9LFR3JZ6mos6MO
When we had to complete a project that had many requirements and little time to complete it.
@ISIDEWITH9mos9MO
Can you think of a scenario where collective good may clash with individual desires, and how might this be navigated?
@9HZ7KYX9mos9MO
I think when people are in charge of their individual selves and there is no other authority, it could easily become chaotic. The government is meant to protect and support the people.
@9HZ7K4S9mos9MO
When theirs is anyone with a biased view. Which is everyone
Vaccination, we could navigate it by documenting all the exact steps in the process to make the vaccine, helping skeptical adults make a decision based on real evidence and cutting out guessing.
@9HZ7TRR9mos9MO
Individual desires should in no way hold priority over the collective good.
@ISIDEWITH8mos8MO
How do peer-to-peer interactions in your life compare to those mediated by institutions or corporations?
@9KN9HXBPeace and Freedom7mos7MO
I do not support Libertarian Socialism because I like peer to peer interaction.
@9L5N8X2 7mos7MO
Could you explain where the two come into conflict?
@9KN8X6Z7mos7MO
Peer to peer interactions defiantly have a bigger impact on me then anything else.
@9KN9JPW7mos7MO
Most people that are peers of mine don't like liberals as much
@ISIDEWITH9mos9MO
What does it mean to be successful, and would your definition change in a society that values collective over individual success?
To be successful, is to be aware of what is going on around yourself. To be able to understand and seek the truth behind all the lies that are spreading throughout the entertainment industry. To Chose what will impact yourself and everyone around you for that better.
@9HZ6ZXG9mos9MO
To me being successful is getting the career or job of your job that you enjoy. My definition wouldn't change in a society that values collective over individual success
@9HZ6R7T9mos9MO
To make a difference in their community, and no it would not change.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution7mos7MO
An oxymoron – libertarianism and socialism are polar opposites
@9CJ6CB67mos7MO
Ohoh this is MY territory. Socialism itself runs off of communal, public, or social ownership of the means of production, and Marxist theory itself merely sees government as a tool to make it work overtime, gradually shrinking as the economy changes. Marx himself WAS a libertarian socialist, an extremely libertarian one at that, and a lot of his models and theories were the building blocks for working nations. The constant misinformed narrative of socialism as authoritarian comes from those nations centralizing and imbuing power into the government to handle the economic issues that OTHER nat… Read more
@Patriot-#1776Constitution7mos7MO
You're conflating socialism with Communism. Marx was not a Socialist, but the Founder of Communism, which says that the State (government) is an unnecessary evil & must be abolished, after property rights have been abolished, to achieve a "classless, stateless" utopian society. Communism has never been achieved, and never will be, and I would not call it libertarian at all, because without private property rights, anarchism would be ten thousand times more chaotic than it would be with them. It is totally unrealistic and only the most naive ideologues, with visions of rainb… Read more
@9CJ6CB67mos7MO
Ah, now we’re starting to get somewhere. Marx was in fact a socialist, since socialism is the intermediate stage towards communism. There are some communists who aren’t socialists (yes, Marxists tend to be both), but they are frequently disproven and written off due to the fact that communism isn’t something you IMPLEMENT, it’s something that EMERGES far into the future. It’s a promise that requires post-scarcity, and for work itself to eventually become so automated and efficient that it’s an optional thing. Capitalism itself doesn’t provide that bec… Read more
@Patriot-#1776Constitution7mos7MO
None of this changes the fact that whenever you vote socialist you are voting for the ideology of GULAGS that exterminated twelve times as many innocent people as Hitler killed in the Third Reich.
@Renaldo-MoonGreen 2 days2D
Socialism is the economic organization that communism, the government organization, relies on.
@9RTKD7L2mos2MO
“If countries supported socialist countries, they’d actually succeed, since socialism in its extremely authoritarian forms actually does work, the issue lies with international cooperation, which drastically reduces the need for any kind of government power on the scale like the USSR. It’s not just possible, it’s the natural state of socialism to be less authoritarian, but other nations make that difficult intentionally because the concept of a working socialist country would uproot capitalism itself.”
This section disagrees with itself. You admit socialism works best under authoritarian rule, which is the case, and there has to be an individual or a group that can enforce that rule. To call socialism communal, especially to say this communal thought process is in the best interests of the greater majority, if not the whole, is at best a misnomer, specifically because someone must be in control somewhere. Capitalism actually does flourish when there are less controls over it, especially when there are less people trying to oversee everything. These people can in fact be bought and told to… Read more
@ISIDEWITH9mos9MO
Have you ever been part of a group where everyone had an equal voice, and how did that make you feel?
@9HT3D7M9mos9MO
I have and it made me feel heard and that what I was saying was relevant.
@ISIDEWITH9mos9MO
How might your relationships with others change if your community operated on mutual aid?
@9HYFPZP9mos9MO
We would become more reliant and closer as people, but this would make it so there is no ¨backbone¨ to a community so if it were to fall apart it would be very difficult to save it. Ive never lived in a city that was large so I cant say how it would work with that many different thought processes but in a small town I think it would work pretty well.
@9HYBLS5 9mos9MO
i would help anyone, regardless of race or gender, i aint a bad person like others
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