Are Most "Socialists" REALLY About State Ownership Of Resources?

No.

Socialism, in my opinion, is originally based on the idea that communities themselves should be the recipients of the recipients of the wealth that is produced by human industry.

So, for example, nowadays you have a whole vast network of multinational corporations that have a class of super rich owning them.

Marx's original idea was that human labor, through the industrial revolution, is an endeavor that produces massive wealth and that that wealth should be owned by the common person instead of owned by a class of owners.

That way all ships would rise, and all people would be "liberated" from poor economic condition.

Thinkers, especially in the 20th century, took to the idea that what you can do to accomplish this is first take control of the state, and then use it to reconfigure the economy like this, then disband the state and exist in a stateless mutualism that Marx attempted to describe with 'communism'.

So, the basic idea was to have power directly in the hands of our own communities. In my opinion, all state socialist movements, despite certain ones accomplishing some good things, have utterly failed at providing this condition, and have led to totalitarianism or authoritarianism and various intensities of "leader worship" instead of power in the hands of the people.

Ever since the days of Marx, there was an anti authoritarian, anti state form of the same idea. It's a rich history and tradition of thought that we now call "anarchism", or other things like "libertarian socialism".

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