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( 9agz of 11)
Over and over again we seek ways to explain and understand the same things. One of those is the difference between capitalism and socialism – two terms which are greatly abused and confused.
Capitalism mainly prioritizes and promotes a “to each his own” mindset in most things essential. It also prioritizes and promotes a collective mindset in things non-essential (those things that should be a matter of personal preference and choice). This collective mindset is forced upon the people by majority rule and/or an “I've-got-the-power” approach.
Capitalism promotes private ownership of essentials, including public ownership that benefits private interests rather than everyone and all things.
On the other hand, socialism prioritizes and promotes a “to each according to need” mindset in all things essential. It also prioritizes and promotes, a communal extended self mindset in things non-essential because all things nonessential are connected and impact all things essential. This communal mindset is achieved through continuous education that teaches the interrelatedness of all things. This is a truer sense of what holistic, wholeness and wholesome means rather than as used in a montessori education system and other such systems called holistic but are not.*
Socialism promotes public communal ownership of essentials, including public governmental ownership that makes adjustments of public resources according to need.
This is the optimal version of socialism. This is in no way the definition of socialism as talked about by those adhering to the suboptimal context, thus capitalism is a manifestation of the suboptimal context. So also is the suboptimal version of socialism. The optimal version of socialism belongs to the optimal context. We are in the twinlight twilight zone and moving from capitalism towards socialism.
*This must be so because an understanding of interrelatedness means understanding the importance thus having and showing respect for all creation, thus holistic education would churn out non-racists and would be taught and administrated by non-racists and their communities would reflect the same.
Instead what we see is the suboptimal worldview trying to hijack, distort and weaken optimal ideologies. And this is why, for instance, the suboptimal claims civilization where it does not exist. This word hijacking continues with freedom, democracy, health, justice and so on.
