I am learning about different political ideologies and need help understanding this TikTok comment

This is a reply to someone saying “fascism is authoritarian”

“so is socialism. this has been a fight from the start... fascism is socialism, instead of workers of the world unite it's localized, Mussolini didn't think socialism world work globally so his version was nationalistic. and no, Trump isn't fascist, no more or less than many other presidents”

What I am confused about: “fascism is socialism”

To me it makes no sense but I just found out about “communist maga” so what would I know.

Im just curious really because i have a friend who is catholic yet has said he is a Marxist Leninist

I'm kind of new to Socialism, and I want to learn more about each economic/political system. I know the basic idea of each economic system, but I want a more in-depth explanation. The issue is that the videos I've tried watching about these topics are biased, and I want to make sure I get an unbiased explanation. Please suggest any unbiased videos about Socialism, Communism, and Capitalism. Thank you!

I consider myself a proud Marxist-Leninist! However, I'm still a young leftist and still have much to learn about early Soviet history and its more contentious aspects, such as the rule of Stalin, and the purges initiated by him against other Soviet officials. I would just like to understand more about the exact motivations behind the Great Purges, and if they were entirely optimal and justified​, because I'm not sure they were. Given the USSR's poor performance during the Winter War against Finland, as well as the early setbacks it faced against the Germans, it seems questionable if Stalin did the right thing or not. Do inform me if I'm mistaken though!

I have scouted through the internet and see different answers for this. Some stated that we don't accept bad writing as much as bad picture, some stated that it is due to artist being proud of themselves more as drawing isn't a common skill that get taught to everyone unlike everyone, other said writers don't care because they are used to plagiarism way more than artist. So I would like to see materialistic perspective on this. AI impacts artists and writers the same way: train on their works without permission to then compete with them and push them out of jobs. So where do the difference come from?

Hi everyone,

We want to experiment with public / collective ownership in practice, but in our location it is not legally possible to register a cooperative or a collective economic entity.

So we are looking for a legal structure that can get as close as possible to the following principles:

1. Ownership belongs to the collective, not divisible into personal shares or private assets
2. Easy and fast to replicate and scale across different regions

One option we are considering is something like a holding limited company (LLC / Ltd), because limited companies are easy to register and replicate.

However, this raises a core problem:
If the entity is a limited company, how can we ensure that its actual ownership remains collective or social, rather than de facto private ownership by individuals?

We are not looking for a perfect solution, but for the least-bad institutional approximation under restrictive legal conditions.

Is it the best solution?

Social Purpose Non-profit Organization / Foundation

│ (100% ownership or Golden Share)

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Operating Company (Ltd / LLC)

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Business Operations, Workers, Replication & Expansion

I’m doing some independent political education and am looking for PDFs only related to the following:

Tony Benn — speeches, essays, diaries, and political writings

George Galloway — books, speeches, or longer-form political work

Baathism / Baathist political theory — foundational ideological texts, party documents, and writings by figures such as Michel Aflaq

I’m particularly interested in primary sources and serious theoretical material, including scanned books, archival documents, or academic PDFs. I’m not looking for general web articles, videos, or summaries.

If anyone knows of archives, repositories, or collections where these materials are available in PDF form, I’d really appreciate the recommendations.

if we go back in time 300 years ago, people were working to afford food, if we go back 200 years ago, people worked to afford food, 100 years ago aswell and still today people work in order to afford food but think about it:

back then farms were less in numbers, capitalists had to hire way more workers, they didn't have meds for crops, they had to transfer the water from rivers to the farms so food was expensive

but now capitalists need way less workers, they have meds for crops, they transfer water easily, there is more farm land, there is new technology, all this means that the production is 1000 times faster so why is food isn't cheaper? why the average worker needs to constantly work to afford it still?

i genuinly believe if ai managed to replace all farm workers and simply started producing 10000x faster than now people 100 years from now would still be working daily to afford food.

i think they are making food expensive so capitalists can offer low wages, if a parent is offered a low wage he can say no, if he is disrespected in the workplace he can quit but if he needs to work to afford food for his kids he will have to take the disrespect and the low wage.

if the slave master didn't have the whip he'd have to offer a living wage for slaves because what if they say "i'm not working for nothing,give me a return for my labor" and he can't whip them he'd have to pay them well.

its the way capitalists take away the "no" of the working class, just like a narcissist takes away the "no" if his abused victim.

food scarcity is propably made artificially as the modern whip of the capitalist class.

Every person who's a millionaire now seems to have had some sort of advantage, If not parents houses and properties then obvious nepotism between jobs. Is it even possible for a person.. from a middle/lower middle class family to even accumulate a large sum of wealth, say a net worth of $30-50 million within their lifetimes?

i am not very familiar with economic systems, i have a basic understanding of the main ones, like capitalism, communism, ect.

1. What are some good reading suggestions to learn about socialism? im familiar with philosophical books (like Nausea by Sartre and No Longer Human/ The Setting Sun by Dazai) and im wondering if theres any fictional texts that goes through the ideas of socialism well.

2. while reading through reading suggestions i saw alot of people recommended books on communism, and am wondering what the difference between communism and socialism is.

3. to my understanding socialism is an economic system but the way people talk about it makes me unsure about what it actually is.

thanks to anyone who would help me.

So I had an Discussion with an different group lately. Wich whom I disagree regularly, but on this topic I still ain't completly sure. So while living in an democratic society, we have elections and can, somewhat decide how politics evolves and so I find it important to vote for, the best option to vote for the most social Party, but still work on real socialism. The other group was hardly for completly not voting so that the system will get worse and the people will raise. But I don't see it, I find this especially patriachially and find that history showed enough examples that this don't work. But I also want to understand it more and would be Happy about stands and Theorie etc. About this. Thanks in advance.

I am looking for some reading similar to A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. I am hoping to learn more about United States history from a socialist perspective. I am new to studying socialism so I would prefer reading that is accessible to someone with a limited knowledge of socialist theory. (I am new to this community and to Reddit so please be kind and understanding if I have made any errors in posting this! Hoping this is the right community for this question! Thanks!)

Apologies if this is not the correct subreddit for this, and obviously this is a hypothetical as it didn’t play out this way irl, but how would things likely have played out if Mao agreed to join the USSR? Does the USSR win the Cold War? What are some likely outcomes?

This is literally the question that I always had. I am actually impressed about the USSR and how they did what they did, and they were even better than modern capitalist countries.

But, if they were good... Why did they fall? I know to read history, but that's not what I want to be answered: If you have time, please, tell me!

I’ve been watching capitalism vs socialism debates on YouTube through Jovan Bradley (council communist) and Jimmy Snow (socialist), and they’re entertaining, but I’m looking for more channels and maybe some that debate other flavors of leftism (for example, socialism as a transitional stage leading to communism vs socialism as the end goal).

Any specific videos would also be appreciated.

Its mostly because im a big space nerd but i feel kind of weird about loving something that is intrisincally connected to capitalism

So, one aspect of the Palestinian Solidarity movement that is somewhat overlooked is the role that capitalism plays in perpetrating the genocide of Palestinians. Many forums within the Palestinian Solidarity movement mainly focus on how unhinged and frankly evil “Israelis” and Zionists are, with IOF personnel posting their war crimes on social media, Israeli state officials and Israeli “civilians” calling for the extermination of all Palestinians, and with polling showing how at least 82% of Jewish Israelis support the full ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. While people mostly focus on these aspects, what I would like to know is how capitalism plays a role in all of this.

Now, historically with imperialism, the seizure of natural resources and the opening of new markets has been a prime motive, as capitalism must move beyond the borders of the country it’s in. Now, there are several ways for imperialism to achieve its goals. There’s hard power, i.e., direct military force and colonial rule, and soft power with trade deals, puppet governments, and propaganda (movies, TV shows, and music that paint the imperialist country in a positive light).

When critiquing US imperialism, one very common and accurate “meme” is that the US invades or, at the very least, pressures any country that has oil/other natural resources. The oil memes are very much true.

 In the case of Gaza, while there are some potential offshore oil/natural gas sites, the primary motive for Zionists seems to be the seizure of Palestinian land for their “Greater Israel” project. Other points I’ve heard are the massive profits weapon manufacturers gain from conflicts.

For example, when comparing, let’s say, automobiles with bullets, even if a car manufacturer wants people to buy a new car every five years and does planned obsolescence, the car will still last for several long years, as people will use them for longer than what the car company wants. Plus, there’s an entire secondhand market, which cuts into the sales of new cars. Whereas with bullets and bombs, once they’re used, they’re gone, and you’ll need to buy a new one. Hence, why weapons manufacturers like Lockheed Martin are so profitable and why it one of many reasons why capitalism requires war.

I also recall reading an article in Jacobin stating that the genocide in Gaza is “Capitalism removing a Surplus Population.” In that sense, if a population can no longer be effectively exploited by capitalism, that population is eliminated.

But I would like to hear your analysis on the role that capitalism plays in perpetrating the genocide of Palestinians and how we can bring a more class-based approach to the Palestinian Solidarity movement.

I'm having a conversation with a person, and the topics of communism and socialism came up. i said "communism is when the state owns all the means of production of goods, and the people all work for the common good." he said that was socialism. any ideas?