Socialist Progressives
In reply to the discussion: What does Socialism look like to you? [View all]Beer Swiller
(44 posts)Think about it. All members of the society who have the ability help fund it do so, and all members can participate in it, at no cost to themselves other than what they pay in taxes for the support of the library. Bill Gates and the homeless dude on the street have equal access.
Furthermore, if public libraries had not been in existence since before the beginning of the American "Republic," any effort to establish such a thing now would be vociferously opposed by the advocates of "free enterprise" as "socialist."
Socialism provides public services with equal access for all, be those services libraries, education, transportation, food, clothing, shelter, or health care. Socialism promotes what is good for all members of the social system in which they reside, equally, by mutual democratic consent. That is what makes it morally antithetical to capitalism, the only objective of which is to accumulate more capital, or profit, soonest, for the capitalists.
If anything, capitalism is far simpler than socialism, since it is ONLY concerned with capital, whereas socialism is concerned with the needs of society as a whole, which is far more complex. Maybe that is why capitalism is more successful than socialism at slogans that can fit onto a bumper sticker.