User blog comment:Centrist16/SOMETHING EVERYONE MUST KNOW/@comment-3398633-20150809140026/@comment-1045231-20150810143342

@Merit: I don't think that's a good way to determine merit. Also, people can bypass merit under capitalism through luck and inherited/gifted prior money. @Central planning: Because central planning is a model of socialism, not a tenet. Decentralized planning, syndicalism, and market socialism are just as valid alternatives. @McD: The profit is from the owner stealing part of the labour that the employee did. That should belong to the worker, because people are entitled to the full product of their labour. @Manage: You can own without managing, if you have prior money. Even if you are doing labour through managing, how is your work worth hundreds of millions of dollars, if someone else's honest work is worth less than a million? @People: Well, I'm a high school student planning to be an engineer. There are plenty of scientists, etc. who were socialist. Albert Einstein, for example. @Immigration: I don't think people should be demonized or called racists for stating their point of view, but it's not relevant to socialism, which is an economic system. @Central planning: No, only some of them. It's not a tenet, just a model. Paris Commune was decentralized, as was Revolutionary Catalonia. Current co-ops are often examples of market socialism. @Workers: They're getting paid the full product of your labour. Your previous profit was stolen from them. If you're performing work, you'll be compensated from that. But if you just 'own' and don't do work, then you won't. @Not socialist: Because they weren't. They didn't meet some of the core tenets of the socialism, such as workplace democracy. They claimed to be socialist to legitimize their regimes. @Examples: Because they claimed to be socialist in order to legitimize their regimes. Even if you admit they're socialist, that's just one model (central planning). We have three other models to try. They weren't really trying to become communist. There never has been a communist state. Our goods come from capitalism because it's the system we have currently. They could just as easily come from socialism. @Final: Again. They claimed to be socialist/communist in order to legitimize their regimes. I think the Holodomor, Great Leap Forward, etc. were all horrific. But they didn't occur under socialist states. They were a result of incompetent and/or malicious governing. And again, even if you admit they were socialist, that's just one failed model (central planning), and we have three others to try.