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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Owens built a practical model for socialist economics, which reverberates into the modern day. He was living proof that these policies could create prosperous surplus over time, and his methods did get adopted in subsequent socialist governments.

But it's true. Simply proving out the mathematics of socialist economics isn't enough, because the practice still overly democratized political influence. For authoritarian capitalists, this wasn't seen as beneficial. Better to Rule in Hell than Serve in Heaven.

Exactly, it isn't merely enough to create as close to a win-win situation as possible, control must be retained and the ability to further exploit retained.