• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    If you read a bit further it even says how it originated in industrial revolution Britain and happened all over the world.

    Industrial Britian had an enormous activist labor movement. A slew of left wing thinkers and agitators emerged from the British academic scene, including Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Ghandi.

    I’m not asking about socialist or social democratic or labour movement policies in capitalist countries

    How are you defining “Capitalist Country” if you ignore all the socialist policies a country has implemented?

    Hell, how do you define Socialist Country, if you exclude every one that’s undergone Capitalist accumulation?

    8-hour work week is a socialist policy, espoused by socialist parties and implemented in governments with socialist majorities. Same with pensions and other public retirement funds.

    The more socialists you have setting policy, the shorter your work week and the earlier your retirement.

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      12 hours ago

      Industrial Britian had an enormous activist labor movement. A slew of left wing thinkers and agitators emerged from the British academic scene, including Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Ghandi.

      Yeah because of how mega capitalist it was

      How are you defining “Capitalist Country” if you ignore all the socialist policies a country has implemented?

      Worker ownership of means of production, usually. Let’s say Eastern Block, China, you get the picture.

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        11 hours ago

        Yeah because of how mega capitalist it was

        Capital accumulation is a predicate for the surpluses needed to build a socialist economy.

        Worker ownership of means of production, usually.

        Public pensions and union shops lay claim to the surplus profits of capital. The UK’s union membership peaked in the 1970s, as did its wages/pensions. After Thatcher, that share declined rapidly, as did the supply of council housing, the access to public health care and education, and the various other amenities common to socialist economies.

        Let’s say Eastern Block, China, you get the picture.

        The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

        • Michael Parenti

        Don’t get much more “worker ownership of means of production” than that.

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          4 hours ago

          You’re not really giving any actual examples of automation shortening the work week in socialist countries here, unless a socialist country for you is the UK in the 70’s and unless automation for you is a maoists uprising against landlords.