Some Ideas on Socialism

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8. Food for thought

This is a larger issue going back to our Communist founders - can you flip state by state or does it have to be a worldwide effort? From the article below: "Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky long ago argued that socialism in one country is impossible because a socialist revolution that does not spread will either be crushed from the outside or survive by being transformed from within. Socialism in one workplace is even more of a non-starter, because the economic, political, and military power of the existing ruling class remains in place."

We saw it happen within months with the Paris Commune: https://www.marxists.org/glossary/orgs/p/a.htm

The article gives the example of Mondragón (in Spain since the 1950s so it gives us some perspective): http://isreview.org/issue/93/are-workers-cooperatives-alternative-capitalism