The simplest way to pitch socialism, in my opinion, is that under a system where private property governs the large firms and key industries (ie, capitalism), eventually you reach a point where even the initially progressive elements of markets turn into monopoly, mass disparity, and even imperialism in the case of the global north, who outsources the greatest suffering of the system to the global south.
The only remedy, is to get to a system where public ownership of the large firms and key industries is principle, ie socialism. It’s better for the industry built up under capitalism to be collectivized and planned to suit our needs. Central planning is remarkably effective, even more so over the large industries once markets have “figured out” optimal methods of planning internally.
How do we get there? Revolution. How can we feasibly have a revolution against the largest millitary in the world? Worker organizing, engaging in party building, and building up unified democratic networks of working class people. Imperialism weakens over time, and as a consequence, so too does the state, allowing the working class party to take decisive action at times of crisis. We have to build that now, because we can’t predict when that crisis will arrive, just that it becomes more likely the further weakened the system gets.
Why can’t we reform the system? Because the state will always side with whichever aspect of the economy is principle. This is the class nature of the state, you cannot simply ask Musk to hand over SpaceX and Tesla, nor Bezos Amazon. The working class needs to smash the former state, and replace it with a working class one.
Those are the bare basics, the reading list I linked in my other reply is for if you want to learn more about these concepts, their underlying evidence, and dive deeper into the reasoning behind them.
The simplest way to pitch socialism, in my opinion, is that under a system where private property governs the large firms and key industries (ie, capitalism), eventually you reach a point where even the initially progressive elements of markets turn into monopoly, mass disparity, and even imperialism in the case of the global north, who outsources the greatest suffering of the system to the global south.
The only remedy, is to get to a system where public ownership of the large firms and key industries is principle, ie socialism. It’s better for the industry built up under capitalism to be collectivized and planned to suit our needs. Central planning is remarkably effective, even more so over the large industries once markets have “figured out” optimal methods of planning internally.
How do we get there? Revolution. How can we feasibly have a revolution against the largest millitary in the world? Worker organizing, engaging in party building, and building up unified democratic networks of working class people. Imperialism weakens over time, and as a consequence, so too does the state, allowing the working class party to take decisive action at times of crisis. We have to build that now, because we can’t predict when that crisis will arrive, just that it becomes more likely the further weakened the system gets.
Why can’t we reform the system? Because the state will always side with whichever aspect of the economy is principle. This is the class nature of the state, you cannot simply ask Musk to hand over SpaceX and Tesla, nor Bezos Amazon. The working class needs to smash the former state, and replace it with a working class one.
Those are the bare basics, the reading list I linked in my other reply is for if you want to learn more about these concepts, their underlying evidence, and dive deeper into the reasoning behind them.