• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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    8 hours ago

    Industrial Britian had an enormous activist labor movement. A slew of left wing thinkers and agitators emerged from the British academic scene, including Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Ghandi.

    Yeah because of how mega capitalist it was

    How are you defining “Capitalist Country” if you ignore all the socialist policies a country has implemented?

    Worker ownership of means of production, usually. Let’s say Eastern Block, China, you get the picture.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Yeah because of how mega capitalist it was

      Capital accumulation is a predicate for the surpluses needed to build a socialist economy.

      Worker ownership of means of production, usually.

      Public pensions and union shops lay claim to the surplus profits of capital. The UK’s union membership peaked in the 1970s, as did its wages/pensions. After Thatcher, that share declined rapidly, as did the supply of council housing, the access to public health care and education, and the various other amenities common to socialist economies.

      Let’s say Eastern Block, China, you get the picture.

      The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

      • Michael Parenti

      Don’t get much more “worker ownership of means of production” than that.