Regarding childcare being provided: I don’t see why parents who wish to be their children’s care providers can’t be trained and paid by the state. Granted, there are parents who want time away from home responsibilities to take on other responsibilities, and that’s fine, too. Perhaps one parent would choose to care for some neighborhood children in addition to their own.
I also feel housespouses should be compensated for endless hours of unpaid labor. This would give economic freedom to leave unhealthy or abusive relationships, while also acknowledging that sometimes people who start out being compatible as partners can grow in different directions, and while it may not be an abusive relationship, can certainly end up being unhappy which can lead to unhealthy. I mean, I understand that everything can’t all happen at once, but this just seems like it can and should be implemented from the go. If the state can pay nannies and other domestic help, there’s no reason why it can’t pay a housespouse/stay at home parent. But proper education and training should be requisite, because these skills are absolutely transferrable to the same outside professions and to other professions with not a lot of additional training.
The world around you is not limited by your ability to understand it. I don’t understand surgery. From my perspective, cutting someone open and moving stuff around “doesn’t look realistic”. Yet surgeries happen. I’m not a surgeon, so I don’t go around telling surgeons what is possible.
Absurd question. Do you think that the purpose of a socialist party is to form after a “global socialist takeover”?
The post said “sign me up for the party trying to solve these issues”. PSL is trying to solve these issues. PSL is trying to make more people into socialists.
50% of most countries are voting extremely conservative, and a big seperate chunk vote moderate. The appetite isn’t there among voters right now for liberalism ; let alone socialism.
That’s because liberalism isn’t a halfway point between socialism and conservatism it is, to misquote Stalin, fascism with a happy face sticker on it.
Most “western” countries’ governments have spent the last ~100 years waging outright war on socialism through coups, assassinations, imprisonments, and propaganda.
Political (and historical) education has been hacked away so much that most people couldn’t give a coherent definition of “socialism” anyway - and socialist policies poll extremely well if you short-circuit the propaganda by not mentioning the forbidden s-word.
The purpose of a party like PSL is to build a mass movement able to build socialism. It’s far beyond just voting every few years. Democracy happens when the masses are in motion, and that’s what PSL aims to achieve.
sign me up for the party trying to solve these issues…wait
https://pslweb.org/program/
Regarding childcare being provided: I don’t see why parents who wish to be their children’s care providers can’t be trained and paid by the state. Granted, there are parents who want time away from home responsibilities to take on other responsibilities, and that’s fine, too. Perhaps one parent would choose to care for some neighborhood children in addition to their own. I also feel housespouses should be compensated for endless hours of unpaid labor. This would give economic freedom to leave unhealthy or abusive relationships, while also acknowledging that sometimes people who start out being compatible as partners can grow in different directions, and while it may not be an abusive relationship, can certainly end up being unhappy which can lead to unhealthy. I mean, I understand that everything can’t all happen at once, but this just seems like it can and should be implemented from the go. If the state can pay nannies and other domestic help, there’s no reason why it can’t pay a housespouse/stay at home parent. But proper education and training should be requisite, because these skills are absolutely transferrable to the same outside professions and to other professions with not a lot of additional training.
doesnt look realistic 😐
sounds like you’re a fan of self fulfilling prophecies
I’d prefer effective pollicies.
Last I checked Marxism has been proven to be effective time and again, but you do you.
Such as?
That’s the question!
The important thing is that you’ve managed to feel smug without doing anything. Congrats!
at least i dont go on the internet to tell strangers how they feel
PSL and groups like them do a lot of good work at more local levels. Feel like that’s worth pointing out
Like what? I’d be curious to know more.
hey I’m just curious but do you know which leader presided over the greatest increase in life expectancy in recorded history?
I doubt there’s reliable data, but my guess would be sargon of akkad
Mao Zedong
how do you figure that’s a greater increase than going from ape life to mesopotamia?
do you think I said recorded history so you could handwave with this kind of dumb caveat
this answers my question about you being in high school
not sure why you’re being so hostile
It’s such a shame that a better world is completely impossible. Oh well, on to the apocalypse I guess.
The world around you is not limited by your ability to understand it. I don’t understand surgery. From my perspective, cutting someone open and moving stuff around “doesn’t look realistic”. Yet surgeries happen. I’m not a surgeon, so I don’t go around telling surgeons what is possible.
Is there a global socialist takeover I missed?
Absurd question. Do you think that the purpose of a socialist party is to form after a “global socialist takeover”?
The post said “sign me up for the party trying to solve these issues”. PSL is trying to solve these issues. PSL is trying to make more people into socialists.
Why global? Ah, because the west will be the last to socialism. Not yet global, but certainly inevitable.
Why not?
50% of most countries are voting extremely conservative, and a big seperate chunk vote moderate. The appetite isn’t there among voters right now for liberalism ; let alone socialism.
Moderates and conservatives are both overwhelmingly liberals… Extremely unserious political understanding.
That’s because liberalism isn’t a halfway point between socialism and conservatism it is, to misquote Stalin, fascism with a happy face sticker on it.
Most “western” countries’ governments have spent the last ~100 years waging outright war on socialism through coups, assassinations, imprisonments, and propaganda.
Political (and historical) education has been hacked away so much that most people couldn’t give a coherent definition of “socialism” anyway - and socialist policies poll extremely well if you short-circuit the propaganda by not mentioning the forbidden s-word.
The purpose of a party like PSL is to build a mass movement able to build socialism. It’s far beyond just voting every few years. Democracy happens when the masses are in motion, and that’s what PSL aims to achieve.
skill issue
Sounds like a lack of imagination or a lack of willingness to try on your part.
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