Marxism

Marxism: I'm politically intrigued in it. All of Marx's economic theories and political predictions failed, but the DSA is starting to thrive, so I've started reading into what the modern democratic socialist thinks should happen. I'm willing in the future to pay for a small socialist America city just to see if things would work out if the rest of the world is capitalist. However, a lot of the microeconomics don't work. A lot of socialists are global or national socialists though where they believe that the entire country or world requires being socialist for their experiment to work. There's also the revolutionary and reformist socialist strand. In the grand scheme of things, they want to upend an entire political system thinking everything must be completely overturned for people to be happy. I think many socialists are past the idea that everyone should be given equal pay and food regardless of market skill, hence worker collectives, due to historical issues and realizing people are lazy. I don't think they have figured out how formation of business works at scale fielding all people who aren't bought into the idea of collectives or take advantage of the state. I'm not one to like all things capitalism, particularly land ownership being highly contentious, but I am also not completely dismissing the need for land rights like socialists. And I think that's the issue which is we like forming laws that are long term when really they should be short, nuanced, extremely regional, and strategic. Because there are always stakes on both sides of the coin, we appreciate long-term laws to diminish chaos factor. Long-term laws also reduce costs via risk reduction. All this said, I'm not of favor of socialism; it holds a disregard for scale of bureaucracy, and I think countries can thrive simply by being well governed -- almost regardless of the type of governing style. The type of government reduces risk of perpetual inequality and poor governance, but what matters is the people at the top being intellectual, selfless, and strategic. I'm also starting to find that socialism requires not only immense bureaucracy but also invasion of everyone's wants. This resembles something like China and the EU whereas America lets people do what they want, and the government intervenes when people go overboard or become too powerful. I'm of the opinion that the government is an interventionist; if it performs unwarranted preventative behavior, it immediately messes up an entire system. However, I do think American politics on both sides go overboard with their warnings, and I'm highly appreciative of the slow nature of Congress which prevents legislation that overregulates what people want to do (LGBT, taxation, etc.) from passing. All this being said, there is an overabundance of regulation from the government that makes me fearful too. The will of the people is also good for people and bad for themselves too; masses are swayed too easily because of a lack of education or knowledge and groupthink/peer pressure.