Socialism will never work because it’s founded on emancipation, and you can’t force people to emancipate themselves. That would be the opposite of emancipation.

I’m not sure if this is a quote, I can’t remember where I heard it.

“Emancipation” in this case meaning emancipation from wage slavery.

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    ITT: People who don’t know the definition of Socialism.

    Socialism is simply when the workers of a business all equally share ownership of the business (“means of production”) and thus have input on how the business is run.

    Socialist businesses would still trade their goods in a marketplace, which could even be a “free market.”

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      Aren’t you describing a coop?

      One of the aspects of socialism is that production is undertaken to fulfill a social need, not to generate profit. But yes, I think you can have markets under a socialist system of production… but I’m no expert.

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      Imagine not knowing the difference between non-market and market socialism and then smugly writing this.