stopthatgirl7Sep 28, 2023

'Power to communities': Chicago considers city-owned grocery store to address 'food deserts' after giants like Walmart and Whole Foods shutter stores

The mayor’s office says it would be the first major U.S. city to enact such a plan.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/power-communities-chicago-considers-city-200000716.html

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Show threadRumbelowsSep 28, 2023
It’s funny how the solutions for the failures of capitalism often end up looking just like socialism
Show threaduisSep 28, 2023
Doesn’t look like socialism to me. Buiseness being city-owned isn’t enough.
Show threadCaptainAnikiSep 28, 2023

Being City-Owned is like the fucking definition of socialism bruh.

The means of production [Store] are owned by the people [Voters].

Show threadÐ Greıt Þu̇mpkinSep 28, 2023
Socialism is ownership by the workers who run the store. What you’re describing is a customer cooperative, which is just replacing bosses with “the people”
Show threadCaptainAnikiSep 28, 2023
It’s not a co-op. A co-op is when many owners work together. In this model, the owners are the public. That’s _social_ism…
Show threadÐ Greıt Þu̇mpkinSep 28, 2023
That’s state capitalism, there is an owner class and a worker class, the workers do not have the sole ownership of the shop, nor do they receive the full share of the fruits of their labor.
Show threadjaybone
Lemmy has the largest group of socialists I’ve ever seen argue about the definition of socialism.
Sep 29, 2023 at 12:10amWeb
Show threadÐ Greıt Þu̇mpkinSep 29, 2023

Tbf, we’re working with a stated definition that’s translated from 19th century German

Not to mention folks who imagine a definition in vision and spirit but not necessarily to the letter of what Marx described

Shit’s gonna get down to exact doctrine real quick even in a room full of socialists all supposedly of the same clade of ideas