Under communism, the government WILL own the means of production. They say that "the people" will own it, but businesses/assets/real estate etc will all be seized by the state. Where there were once options on where to spend your money, now there is only the state. And the state does a crap job of running businesses, just look at the dmv and post office. Guess what else? If the state doesn't like you, it can cut you off from all those products and services. Or maybe it will destroy that business altogether, so the people are weakened and more easily controlled. Where before you might go down to your neighbor's ranch and get some beef, now the government has taken his acreage and killed all the cows. Do what we say to get your government cheese or starve, peasant! But it's okay, because there's no awful rich people anymore. Now we're equally poor and destitute!
Dmv and post office work well here, maybe it's where you are.
So how do you propose the means of production get taken from the few? The government seizes it. so if the people are supposed to own the means of production, is it going to be sort of like how America is supposed to be a government by the people and for the people? Like how our government is supposed to work for the people? I don't think anyone in America wants income taxed, or wants to be an endless wars, or wants to send billions or trillions of dollars of our tax dollars to other countries when we have problems here. So magically government is just going to start listening to The people under socialism, huh? the government always has the power, and will always work in its own self-interest. The more power you give it, the more it is a detriment to the individual.
The people seize it, how else?
How do I propose, stop working to make others rich.
That isn't reality right now.
That's history though
History does not apply to "exceptional" countries. Were better, right?
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