Reply #119: That's exactly what it is.

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You, as an individual, exist only to serve the collective in a socialist model. You are a subject of The State.

You can read all the theory you want. It's great for classroom conversation. But you won't have an understanding of its implementation until you study the history of socialist experiments, which is littered with famine, repression and genocide.

Those in power in the socialist states still end up with more money and goods and, obviously, more power. And when the masses realize "the great leap forward" only applied to the few in power, they rise up and you get things like the "Red Terror," or the massacre of tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands in Romania. The list goes on and on.

And invariably, those who still advocate for this failed economic model argue that it just wasn't properly implemented.