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I mean, I can get saying it's not racist to observe that sickle cell is more common in Africans than Caucasians (IIRC?). OTOH, I'd include claims of some kind of inherent mental condition in a specific group as a sign of racist thinking. Judging that if someone is X, therefore they are Y, is...

Yes, that point is established, but that's not what I'm bringing up. The principle of socialism I've seen pushed the most isn't "make everyone equal" (although there is a very notable exception to that), it's "people own a share of the enterprise they work in, which protects them from...

But that doesn't really address my remark? I'm asking how acknowledging the need for different wages/earnings to attract people to more difficult or less-enjoyable jobs will undermine the idea of worker-owned businesses? Are you envisioning that the wage differential wouldn't be enough, that...

Alright, I'll bite. How would you define racist?

If all enterprises were worker-owned and such, couldn't they still have it where some jobs pay more than others because they're the suckier/harder jobs? If the entire point of socialism is that the "means of production" are not owned by singular persons and/or entities but by the people who...

Well, in all of those cases save Hitler, they came to positions of power via revolutions and internal conflicts with society broken open by the stresses. Those conditions are ripe for strongmen to seize power and decide they don't want to give it up even after victory. Napoleon did the same in...