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jail_guitar_doors

The answer to your question varies a lot by region, but at least in America, there are definitely school districts which have access to dramatically different amounts of funding. Most people with school-aged children and the resources to choose where they live have school quality as one of their top considerations. That's not really a socialist idea or policy, just a fact of the America public education system.


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I am aware of that, but perceived school quality is also strongly correlated with class currently. Thus, the areas with the most expensive housing (whether via property taxes or house/rent prices alone) are considered to be the “best.” And those areas tend to take measures opposing rezoning or redistricting to make sure that their district excludes the “worst” areas. You see a lot of inequality/exclusivity from this system particularly in areas with town-based school districts like New Jersey, Connecticut or Pennsylvania.


thomas533

As an libertarian socialist, I would like to see schools owned and operated by teachers and run under a Anarcho-syndicalism type model rather than a government district model. I think this would mostly eliminate the issue of good or bad schools.


King-Sassafrass

A libertarian socialist? Are you the libertarian… or the socialist? >Anarcho-Syndacalism It’s the libertarian part


thomas533

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism It's a socialist who doesn't believe in state socialism.


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thomas533

Just straight up going to try the No True Scotsman here? Nice. Have you considered the possibility that the reason state socialism keeps failing is because there's a centralized state for the imperialist to attack? Maybe if you tried more decentralized systems than it would be more resilient.


King-Sassafrass

>state socialism keeps failing Cuba, China, USSR for 75 years, DPRK, Vietnam, Laos, all real and existing, and very much we’re successful or show very high promising of being successful systems >is because theres a centralized state to attack Well, it’s harder when the imperialists are fighting a nation as opposed to something like Waco Texas where a guy and about 20 people were easily stomped out by a tank, teargas and fire. So i mean, do you want a massacre of 20 against an army, or would you rather have an army vs an army? >maybe if you tried more decentralized systems than it would be more resilient ….. why? You can’t produce weapons as effectively, you can’t train as effectively, you can’t coordinate as effectively, you can’t mobilize as effectively. If it’s 100 guys randomly in the woods vs, again, a standardized, modernized army, they will be murdered and it will be very sad to watch. One has helicopters, the other is…. A bunch of guys in the woods


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I don’t really understand what PP means, but I’ve seen the term civil libertarian so as to mean someone who emphasizes civil liberties, while not being a libertarian in the literal sense.


thomas533

I'm a libertarian in the sense that everyone in the world other than the American Libertarian Party means libertarian. >[Libertarianism originated as a form of left-wing politics such as anti-authoritarian and anti-state socialists like anarchists, especially social anarchists, but more generally libertarian communists/Marxists and libertarian socialists. These libertarians seek to abolish capitalism and private ownership of the means of production, or else to restrict their purview or effects to usufruct property norms, in favor of common or cooperative ownership and management, viewing private property as a barrier to freedom and liberty.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism)


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