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There is not a single socialist country on the planet where the workers control the means of production. Your definition only exists on paper and in utopia.
Try talking to someone who actually lived under Socialism (as in Soviet) and ask them how much control they had over the means of productions. They'll laugh in your face.
There's Theory and then there's Reality.
Yes, and the reality is that Bernie Sanders has been collecting a generous government check for decades, during which he & his wife enjoyed a household income often exceeding $300,000. Now that he's 74 and both he and his wife collect the maximum Social Security benefit, have pension plans and retirement accounts (and get Medicare) he can propose a lot of tax plans and other programs in which he will never participate.
Back to the anticipated violent protests, I was a student in 1970 when the Kent State shootings occurred, where unarmed college students in Ohio were killed by the National Guard. The same month, at a predominantly Black college in Mississippi, police fired 400 shots into a student dorm, killing 2 students and injuring several others, but the media was silent on those murders. (Gee, I wonder why?) Anyway, dead students and an outraged, horrified nation apparently didn't stop the war for another 5 years, although the 26th Amendment was finally passed.
However, I do believe in protesting and peaceful protest is usually the best and most effective way to be heard and bring about positive change.
Movements aren't usually led by the older folk though.
Oh, there are a few young ones who haven't bought the Lie. We're teaching them, and they will be the Ghosts in the Machine once we are gone......you don't even know who they are.
Until...........
They did. It created the mess we have starting in 2008.
Haha, I mean go to your home and smash everything you own. Into pieces.
Or burn it.
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