bripat9643
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Wrong.Infrastructure is the product of those who labored to produce it.Um no infrastructure isn’t the center of my argument - I just used it as an example of socialism. Again I’ll say this: infrastructure is the product of tax payer revenue. Tax payer money funds infrastructure projects. Thats PRODUCTION and is also SOCIALISM.I already explained that. Your only argument is that infrastructure is Socialist, I explained it isn't, and your quote from Wikipedia supports that. In fact, because your statement has been proven incorrect, you can't point to a time when the means of production were Socially Controlled.Actually what you’ve failed to do is explain why the US government - in any point in history - isn’t socialist.
The closest the US ever came to Socialism was under FDR, when he created and extended the Great Depression, but the NRA and NIRA were both struck down, because they were unconstitutional.
Your tax money is used to hire capitalists to produce infrastructure.
The capitalist hires wage labor to produce infrastructure.
The capitalists profits off the unpaid value of the labor to produce infrastructure.
Is that then your idea of the social ownership of the means of production? That we all, through our taxes, use our collective capital to exploit labor for private accumulation?
Do you then also believe that the armaments industry is an example of socialism?
The labor theory of value was proved wrong over 100 years ago.
If it was you would have no problem in demonstrating that knowledge for us now.
I'll prove it wrong right here and now:
On Monday the price of oranges is $1.00/lb. Monday night there is a severe cold wave in Florida. Half the orange crop dies. Tuesday the price of oranges is $3.00/lb. How did the amount of labor to produce each orange change between Monday and Tuesday?