🎯 Main Thesis

The idea of a “mix between capitalism and socialism,” often promoted by well-meaning liberals, is:

• Ideologically confused
• Historically inaccurate
• Structurally impossible

In reality, you cannot mix systems based on opposing class interests. “Mixed economy” simply ends up being capitalism with concessions — a temporary and unstable compromise designed to preserve capitalist domination.

🧠 Understanding Capitalism vs. Socialism

🏭 Capitalism:

• Private ownership of capital (factories, land, resources)
• Wage labor: workers sell labor to capitalists
• Profit motive governs production
• Maintains a class system: capitalists vs. workers
• Capitalists want:
  • More work, less pay
• Workers want:
  • Less work, more pay

🌾 Socialism:

• Abolition of private ownership of the means of production
• Collective or state ownership of resources
• Democratic workplace control (e.g., unions, syndicates, cooperatives)
• Ends wage labor