my hobby is explaining the nature of marxism to morons who didnt read the material, and dont understand the underlying assumptions that makes marx's assertions so terribly wrong.
it's a lot of fun, especially when they try to explain how Benito Mussolini isnt a marxist any more, through a tortured series of No True Scotsman fallacies and references to bullshit student projects from a community college in the most heavily marxist area of spain, catalonia.
it's even better when they try to explain why fascism isnt based on marx because Mussolini and Hitler transferred
nominal (read as;
In Name Only) ownership to party apparatchiks who operated those industries under direct government control, and only pocketed a slice of the profits from said industries, while the lion's share went to the state.
and of course if those apparatchiks failed to deliver, "their" shit was taken away and given to another member of the party's top echelon, in what rational economists call a "Franchise" (as the US does with the public airwaves)
this simple shit is so easy to understand, that even a child can grasp it.
if you "give" a child a bicycle, contingent upon their performing certain chores, and stipulate that if they fail to perform those chores, their bicycle privileges will be rescinded, you have granted the child a Bicycle Franchise, not ownership of a bicycle. Franchises are at their very heart, Socialist in nature, in that actual ownership of the property remains with the state, as does ultimate control of said property. this does not mean the child cannot take on a paper route and thus profit from the bicycle, it simply means his bicycle privileges are contingent on the approval of the state. ergo: Socialism
if however, a child performs chores for pay, and uses that pay to purchase a bicycle, thats capitalism. the child may use that bicycle in whatever manner he chooses, and if he wrecks it trying to jump over a storm sewer, he loses his bicycle, and must save up to buy another, and in the future, he will, hopefully, have learned not to try and jump over storm sewers.
if however mummy and daddy pat him on the head and buy him a new bicycle, well, that's socialism too, and he will almost certainly be out there at the storm sewer tomorrow, ready to try again, since there is no penalty for failure.
yep, even children understand this shit better than bucky, ac and pada.