u/VeryConfusedBee

How does our generation view socialism as an ideology?

As Engels put it, socialism is not a mere utopian moral ideal, but an objective necessity resulting from the material contradictions within capitalism.

Essentially, socialism is the means of reaching a better world (utopia, possibly) through organisation and revolution.

Basically what this means is giving workers the right to have a say in the central problem of economics (what gets produced, and for whom?), and the right to receive the full value of what they produce (eg. A factory worker gets a share of the full revenue from selling items produced in the factory, not just a wage that doesn't change regardless of total revenue)

Do you agree or disagree with the idea of socialism, and do you feel like socialist policies have a place in Singapore?

Tbh I'm sick of VIA and community service because it feels performative, and tends to act as a band-aid fix to larger structural problems. I would like to get involved in politics so that one day I might get to help solve some of these problems, but I don't know how :(

One thing that keeps popping up from the stuff I've read and the videos I've watched is "you need to start organising so people can get recruited into your movement". But I live in Singapore where the government bans all mass gatherings (except, of course, religious ones) unless you have a permit. The government isn't going to grant a permit to organise a peaceful demonstration in a million years. What do I do atp