Are there any Autistics that are opposed to socialism?

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Socialism does not take into account human nature---at all.

Karl Marx had some cockamamie ideas about the "masses." As if the "masses" were an amorphous mass of humanity.

Karl Marx was one of the first to try his hand at psychohistory - the prediction of future events by examination of human behavior. He also believed that, given an ideal society, humans would evolve away from crime, selfishness, and greed within just a few generations. He was wrong -- look at what became of the former Soviet Union (a.k.a., "The Workers' Paradise").

Now here we are today, with people praising Socialism and making the same mistakes regarding human nature, classless societies, and government regulation of wealth. People will not change just because you make life easier for them; all you're doing is making it easier for them to be non-productive. Why work when "Big  Brother  Government" gives you everything you need?

So far, the most workable system is a hybrid of socialism and capitalism. Give people incentive to make material wealth and be happy, but also have mechanisms in place to provide care and sustenance to those who have fallen behind or who are either disabled, aged, or long term unemployed.

Sounds like you're describing the government model of the U.S.?

The western Europeans are further ahead of us with a better model.

I’m certainly not opposed, I’m politically like famous aspie Albert Einstein - a proud internationalist, socialist.

-George Orwell described himself as a democratic socialist. He fought for Revolutionary Catalonia, an industrialized region that was under workers' self-management.

Yup. Animal Farm is not a complaint against socialism, but a complaint against corrupting it.



This is a new account, so I'm not allowed to post links. The source is Wikipedia's page on Animal Farm.



Agreed.