Is Socialism a good thing?

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Socialism requires that government becomes your God.

Your point is refuted with the existence of Anarchism.

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Workplace democracy is morally right, and anyone who disagrees is a bootlicker.

Yeah, instead of licking the boot of your employer, you should lick the boot of majority opinion instead.

It isn’t the current majority’s fault that you exhibit such awfulness to be excluded. Try making a convincing case for yourself instead of licking the boots of the current GM.

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I personally can't wait for a post-scarcity society so we can stop arguing over how best to structure the distribution of socioeconmic benefits.

We already live in a post-scarcity society. And yet the wealthy are still hoarding all the fruits of it.

But if we were really living in a post-scarcity society, then wouldn't hoarding it no longer matter? As in they could hoard it and the rest of us could just get more? The fact that we can't seems to imply we're not post-scarcity.

Well, we're a post-scarcity society in the sense that we currently produce more than enough resources to provide every single person alive today with a good and fulfilling life. I guess we're not a post-scarcity society in the sense of having infinite resources, but if that's how you define it then obviously we will never be.

Post-scarcity is a myth.  Economics 101 tell us that the scope of human want is truly boundless. 

Absolutely not. We aren’t at the stage to reap the galaxy to our own whim, and our ability to exploit this world has its limits.

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Socialism for who, is the question.

The entire people once society is reorganized to be a full democracy run by those liberated from the wage system, and those forced out of such system as well, by the current dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.

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It's never good to go too far to the left or too far to the right. What we have in America is a compromise between pure capitalism and pure socialism. The fact that we have a compromise between the two extremes is perpetually complained about by the extremes -- I constantly hear complaints by the far right that socialism has been gradually creeping in to our governmental system and we have to put a stop to it before it gets any more socialized. And then there's Bernie and his bros, who always lament how much capitlaism we still have and that's somehow not a good thing.

So long as I continue hearing both extreme sides complaining how the American system is, right now, I know that we still have a compromise worked out, which satisfies me.

So what does that compromise look like? Social Democracy? State Capitalism?

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The term you are looking for is called Social Democracy.

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Socialism is not really an ideology anyone wants to be apart of. I don't understand why someone would want to be a Socialist, of course, if you support Socialism as the stepping stone to Communism that makes more sense, but just being purely a Socialist is weird. Generally, though the abolition of currency, class, and the hierarchy is something I can get behind in a post-scarcity society. 

Some people don’t want to buy into the nihilism that life is a rat race, that there is no other option but to eat the other dog, that Capitalism is eternal and inescapable human condition. It’s obviously more detailed then that, but that’s the jist of it.

Your comment is asking why would anyone be a Capitalist in 13^th century Europe anyway, where the Church, the Fiefdom, and the King reigned supreme. Slowly and steadily, it was proved to not be eternal.