Could the technology of today make a socialist society work better than the current exploitative and consumerist driven corporatist capitalism?
>Inb4 /pol/ an-handicap invective
I'm apolitical in general. Socialists tell me I'm too conservative and conservatives tell me I'm too liberal. I don't enjoy being ideologically possessed so party politics can fuck itself. All I'm trying to get across is that it just occurred to me than in today's highly advanced technological society, a system where - without the restrictions of profit maximisation and other factors involved in the regression of technological progress - socialism could flourish closer to the way it's idealisation is portrayed in theory.
Perhaps the tragedy of the past communist regimes were a result of it's time and the early stages of a poorly adapting industrial society of the late 19th century and early 20th century? I'm still arguing with myself about this too, because I don't exactly agree with overpopulation and dead evolutionary weight, but with everything that capitalism tries to do for the species, a modernised socialism could prove to be more successful.
Most of us with sense can admit a large portion of what modern capitalism is corrupt and what it produces is not healthy for society and the planet. To put it from my own perspective, it's run it's coarse. It's collapsing and it's time to adapt otherwise the Empire will fall. The condition of the new generation is a sign of this, and it's what rabid ancaps don't realize is a result of the wild corporatism that modernity is fuelled by. It's hindering our ability to survive by blinding us with consumerist detractions that make it's way into most aspects of society, thereby making it easier for those who run the game kill off the proles of the society they've made themselves predators for, like an artificial natural selection.