...You consider the Fed to be left wing? It's a private bank FFS. It is run by people with no interest at all in socialism, communism, or any other -ism.
Yet they funded the Bolshevik revolution? Funny that.
Yet they withdrew funds from Chang kai Shek, and supported Mao? Funny that.
'All wars are bankers wars?' ( i suggest you read it)
You need to educate yourself in some history.
(a lot of my posts covers all this).
Communism in it's purest form has been working well - for millennia - but structures of bureaucracy halts it's ability to ever scale up.
socialism - by your interpretation above, fails, because the need to repress merit is endemic in the system. Crab bucket mentality.
What these ideas are supposed to be are irrelevant - they change from Rousseau, to Bukharin, to Marx, to foucult.
They are used by private central banks to continue towards total wealth transfer from 'us', the producers, to them , the paristites.
THAT is the entire game.
They care not what labels are attributed to them, fascist, communist, etc.
This is why democratically chosen (or other 'rule by consent') authorities are so vital to a functional government... if you can't revoke the authority of people who abuse their power, they will quickly ensure that they can only be removed by force.
Democracy is an illusion provided to the masses to make them think they some power.
'if voting ever made a difference, it would be illegal', and all that
Personally, I would love to see a day without governments. I don't really think we need them as much as we once did
We've never needed them - not to the extent that they've been employed.
You can live without government intrusion if oyu like - but nothing is free, as they say - most people would prefer comfort over freedom.
(I'm not too big on the comfort part, myself).
It costs you _ a lot_ , to unplug from the system.
I've been doing it - mostly successfully - for three decades.
It's most certainly not free of cost.
I've been plugging in and out of the system for about three decades myself, while it hasn't been free of cost (nothing is completely free of cost), it's been way more rewarding than costly. I try to use costs to get rewards as much as I can, which is why I plug in and out.
Plugging in has costs too, especially for people who don't want to be part of the herd. If the herd is moving the same way I am, I use it. Does that make me a 'Conforming Normie'? I've never been accused of being a conformist. I don't see the herd as bad, it's just a herd. Sometimes it's an easy ride, sometimes it's an obstacle, mostly it's just the background noise.
I don't agree with everything in your reply (base socialism would not need to repress merit), but it was really well done, without a trace of divisionist rhetoric. 100% upvote.