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This is one of MOOCs offered by the University of Helsinki. There are more at https://mooc.fi. It also acts as a proper, credit-bearing university course. It is the best thing socialism has ever produced.


Socialism is where workers control the means of production. I think you mean social policies, not actual socialism.


Teaching how to code for free checks the "workers controlling the means of production" for me.


If you learn to turn a lathe then work in standard corporation (a dictatorship, military-like organization that produces profits by extracting surplus value from labor) that's not a democratically controlled workplace, hence the workers having skills does not make for socialism. For that matter, only having democratic control of a single workplace (a worker cooperative) does not make for socialism either as you will still have to extract surplus labor to compete in an unplanned marketplace.


Yeah, you definitely need the famines and gulags before you can seriously call it Real Socialism, not that it’s ever been tried.


No, lol.


The Soviets wrote some of the best Maths book, ever.




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