• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        12 hours ago

        Close. Communism cannot exist until the entire planet is Socialist, but Socialism can be determined at a country level.

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          9 hours ago

          This seems needlessly arbitrary and reductive. Socialism exists all around us, it isn’t defined by a country’s borders.

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              6 hours ago

              No, socialism is when the people own the means of production. That doesn’t require national borders, nor do I take your trolling response to be a positive indicator of arguing in good faith.

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                The post I wrote here goes over why that doesn’t actually apply. The reason we consider countries to be relative barriers (until Communism is achieved and thus this becomes irrelevant) is because there is a degree of genuine sovereignty in countries regarding their economics. A publicly owned structure in Mexico is owned by Mexican citizens, not US citizens. Once the world is Socialist, this will begin to blur and break down towards Communism, but we aren’t there yet.

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      24 hours ago

      I’m not sure how that link is supposed to refute anything? It says basically what the comment above says without using the phrase “mixed economies”.

      If you meant the power structure and public/private balance is heavily capitalist for Nordic countries then you’d probably want to post something else supporting that statement.

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        12 hours ago

        Hey, I’m the author of that post! I don’t see how my post says the same thing at all, it very much talks about which aspect, private or public, has power in society is what determines the nature of its economy.