We also had many free state colleges and universities. Until Reagan.You mean we didn't have upward mobility before WW II?Upward Mobility goes along with cheap University and training. End of story.That is not true. You just do not know when to draw the line. We have bills that are not paid for with socialist policies that we owe other people and it does not bother you. How does a ghetto never change even after adding more and more social programs to get people out of it?Every socialist Party in every modern country is for always Democratic Fair capitalism with a good safety net. End of story. And anyone who is against it is a brainwashed functional moron GOP voter.I've never seen such a huge collection of idiocies gathered in one place.Communist in the sense of the Iroquois Nation's indifference towards hierarchical social class structures or capital accumulation?
"A democratic workplace in which the workers own and democratically decide how profit is distributed has long been the ideal of socialist thinkers.
"Marx referred to co-operatives, or democratically owned workplaces, as communism in The Civil War in France; and these ideas are echoed in his other writings such as Das Kapital.
"Dr. Richard Wolff, a visiting professor at the New School University, has argued for years for democratizing the workplace.
"This is an alternative to the capitalist system, which is a top-down authoritarian mode of production based off of profit through selling oneself, also known as wage labor.
"Instead, Wolff calls for workers to democratically decide how to allocate the surplus they produce.Wolff’s redefinition of socialism moves the discussion away from property relations to the organization of the workplace.
"This definition allows for the development of Worker Self-Directed Enterprises (WSDEs), which could help to end economic exploitation and provide a new way of thinking about production and class relations."
Worker Self-Directed Enterprises – A New Way of Thinking About the Workplace
Socialism implies society controls the means of production; a government command economy is one possible method, and that can be effective as the US proved during its involvement in WWI and WWII.
Workers can also control the means of production; although, you wouldn't see pay difference of 350:1 like you do in today's corporate slave markets.