In common, commons, commune. Are you familiar with these terms? Co-op, Cooperative. This is what you describe not Socialism. Democratic Communism. Not to be confused with Soviet Communism. Not Authoritarianism but Democracy. Currently we have Oligarchic Authoritarian Capitalism. We must be careful we don’t replace that with Socialist Authoritarianism.

Democratic Communism would be wonderful, utopian.

You can’t get there from here. You already explained how the Oligarchs have control of not only the government but the media and large portions of the population.

You could act locally to turn businesses into Co-ops and increase the Commons with community owned hospitals, churches, libraries, parks, symphonies and soup kitchens. This is actually the situation in many small rural farm communities. Imagine if the Union could do a leveraged buyout of a business, the business could then belong to the workers.

What is the time scale for your vision, 50 years, 100 years. This would need to be a long term project.

Even if you could pull something like a Maoist revolution it would not end up as you would hope. Revolutions just replace one set of Oligarchs with another set of Authoritarians or Dictators. We replaced a King with a bunch of Slave Owners.

Start the evolution, unite workers and empower them to buy and build businesses. Elect Politicians who will protect them from unfair practices by the Oligarchs and in maybe a century you will see more worker owned companies. You see Capitalism is not required it is only allowed. If Communism is better then Capitalism will pass the way of the Dodo.

TEK