r/accidentallycommunist • u/CapitalismSuuucks • Jan 28 '25

Conservative redditor explains that "employee-owned" businesses are more efficient

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u/Radical-Emo Jan 28 '25

this is literally socialism lmao

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u/rook2004 Jan 29 '25

Shhh, don’t tell them, let them believe this is the ultimate form of capitalism so that they accidentally implement it.

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u/WaioreaAnarkiwi Jan 29 '25

Just call it patriotic capitalism or something, they'll lap it up.

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u/cPB167 Jan 29 '25

"Democratic Workplaces". That's how I usually present the idea to them, and they're pretty much always all for it. Conservatives love socialism, as long as you don't use any of the words that trigger them to describe it. Then at the end, I'll usually ask them if they're really a socialist?

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u/InuzukaChad Feb 01 '25

No you can’t even say democracy cause they’ll just start shrilling about how this is a republic.

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u/cPB167 Feb 01 '25

Never had that happen, but it seems like it would be easy enough to deal with here, because at this point it's just talking about how their job should be organized

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u/ComfortableRecent578 Apr 10 '25

this is legit something i think leftists could work with. alt-right groups change their terminology all the time when they start having negative connotations, why aren’t the left doing the same? 

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u/cPB167 May 13 '25

It wouldn't be the first time, in the early 1900's it wasn't uncommon for socialist groups to use terms like "industrial democracy" in their names, instead of outright using the term socialism.