Topic: why socialism? - page 10. (Read 7744 times)

Jesus said blessed are the poor and the ones who have lots of money will have a hard time entering gods kingdom. Funny how the followers of him built the Vatican and corporate america.

but its not about religeon im only saying as americans we are religous about our words "Capitalism" "Democracy" Capitalism is not the answer to everything and democracy doesnt work in a mental institution. things need to have context to be accurate. our forefathers knew this and were basing their decisions on what woudl create the best way of life a tthe time and we shoukld do so also

It's been happening for a long time

The religion thing happened because of all the wars... when loved ones get themselves killed, people turn to religion

Religious fanaticism got so popular during the 50's, they changed the national motto from E. Pluribus Unum, to In sky-god we trust

Printing "In god we trust" on the money is a particular oxymoron... the bible says, "The love of money is the root of all evil"

Honestly, I love America but america is fucking stupid is what it really comes down to. The country falls in love with words like Capitalism and acts like any other kind of ism is cheating lol

When our forefathers founded this country they made the rules to be efficient and to encourage individual progress , they weren't written by god and you need to have faith in them they were written by educated people trying to make a country that works. Our country no longer works because we no longer make our rules based on this premise, we are scared of change and we will fall behind because of this.

No need to build either communism or socialism, and even capitalism is not needed in a pure form. It should take just a little and build on what is necessary for ordinary people. You are right about one thing. Strengths of this world, play in their game and they do not care about ordinary people.

You forgot to add that the red square, drunk guys, go horse bears and play the balalaika. A Russian children play with dolls. in Russia have long do not build communism. China has also changed its policy

Yeah its really unfortunate he didnt win. America is so backwards sometimes. Like its great they finally elected a black president with Obama but it should have happened in the 70's with Martin Luther King. I suspect the same will be with socialism america will finally adopt it in 40 years and people will say can you imagine if we had been smart enough for this in the time of Bernie Sanders how much further along wed all be. Its sad really to have missed out on such an opportunity to turn things around. It's Al Gore and green energy all over again and now were forever behind the rest opf the world in that too.
I understand your hesitance to use the word conspiracy because of how much TV drama it implies but it is the correct word to describe the situation. "The "wealthy elites" that control the country do not want Socialism, because it would tax THEM more..."

 

Yes, it's basically a conspiracy (though I hate using that word)

The "wealthy elites" that control the country do not want Socialism, because it would tax THEM more... they love Capitalism, where they write the laws and decide their own tax rate

Which is why they tell us to hate Socialism... they make it sound evil, and nothing worth investigating, so people don't even bother to research it

Bernie Sanders threw a wrench into their mind-control scheme by running for president as a Socialist... he brought Socialism attention in the USA, and had the support of nearly half the country

Which is why the elites conspired against him... as expected and evidenced by their actions long before the DNC email leak proved it

as a matter of fact the evidence even points to the contrary, if you look at European countries.

Russia's problems do not come from the fact that they have socialized institutions they come from the fact that greedy dictators control those institutions, same with China.
Its easy to blame a system, its like having a war on terror. Terror is a feeling, you cant have a war wit ha feeling just like an economic system cant be at fault for the corruption. Its rather the opposite that the corruption is at fault for ruining the system

Unfortunately... here in 'Murica, anti-socialism is preached in the textbooks in school

Every 'Murican gets told dozens of times by dozens of teachers that Communism is of the devil, and Socialism is Communism

That's pretty much it though... that's all they say... we need to hate those evil Commie bastards...

But, nobody ever explains why... it's all a bunch of "Socialism never works", etc... but there is never any evidence to back up such a statement

It boils down to competition with Russia and China... you gotta hate the competition/enemy and slander them with propaganda, right?


It's basically the definition of bigotry being preached in the public school system for 50 years

It can be applied to a developed country where it could sustain the needs of its people with all benefits for free.  And a country where corruption is very minimal.  

It would be a good thing if all companies or high earning establishments will be operated by the government to finance the needs of its people.  But of course this would not take effect as some leaders and officials were corrupt.

You make it sound like:

A) you don't pay taxes already
B) The thigns you pay taxes for would be free other wise (which they would not)
C) Socialism would take away from your democracy (which it would not)
D) That super packs don't already control your current government with an iron fist, your worried big corporations will work together to control the vote over where your communal money would go if America was hypothetically more socialist. Accept currently you have no communal money or programs and those greedy corporations charge you amounts you cant afford for services you need. Instead they would be fighting for a bigger piece of a pie that's already put their to pay them for services you are guaranteed , only an idiot would fight against his own best interests

Love how stupid this post is and how it completely ignores all previous stated facts in other posts.

CANADA IS VERY SOCIALIST AND WORKS FINE! In spite of what you may think of the Canadian government funded programs, such as Free healthcare, Public Schools, Public Fire Safety, Public Police, Public works, Free Festivals for all Canada's citizens and Government controlled Banking , Canada did not turn into Russia or any of the failed countries you are mentioning therefor everything you just said was completely false. Canada's unemployment is no sky high because it has government funded programs that help find people jobs. Get it?

Basically you Americans hate the very things that would help you, and your all stupid for not voting for Bernie Sanders

 

It's the if... Then you agree to social democracy meaning that 50%+1 of the voters will be able to decide how much of your btc you can keep and allocate your founds to what ever they see fit, but ultimately it ends in cronyism because greed contrary to your belief is quite spread among all species...

This is the big problem that socialists have with freedom (and fake conservative). The individual, ultimate creation of the almighty God is born free to chose. According to some, one even took an apple that shouldn't have been touched.

Then to the last posters all socialists dreams end when the extraction specialists arrives... They are the front men of the giant unseen powerful armies of the free market. The last remenants will be the leaders of the socialists movement (Maduro, family and friends wealth is long out and secure from Venezuela... The sad part is that he will certainly see death there... More profit for the extraction specialist). Your so called nation is just a jurisdiction, if you can keep it. I hope you will enjoy the fight against the Corporate Invisible Armies...

Capitalism worked in the past and works now. Socialism has never worked in the past and does not now. Crapitalism has never worked in the past and does not now(USA).

I liked what Gingrich said about unemployment benefits-the reciever should be doing some "training" or along those lines while receiving those benefits, so they don't just milk it up like my cousin does. I think also everyone should be able to opt out of welfare such as Social Security. No harm to that.

As far as the corruption of politicians by wealkthy-dont allow them to receive money in any way through lobbying. Im not just talkin about corporations-the unions are what i fear the most. They have damned my state California to hell. Our education went from first to 48th years ago.

The fair share tax wont change a damn thing as much as some would like it do. As soon as the tax gets high in the wealthies minds. They will hide the money. Only at normal levels will they actually pay it which is why they pay a lower percentage of their income. They still pay for the 50% of the US population that don't. Estonia has a flat tax and they are rising.

Taxes are the least of my worries, spending is the most.

Depressions are all under the feds watch and he says he got somtin to fix it. Yet we didn't get out of the depression until our soldiers came back. We haven't gotten out of the recession with the increased spending under bush and obama. Wasting money doesn't seem to be in the minds of both republicans and democrats.

SOCIALISM

State and social system, the basis of the relations of production to-cerned is the public ownership of the means of production and a rum implemented the principle: from each according to his ability, to each according to his work.
In general, if you do not attach importance to trifles. Those who have done so much and he has received. The idea, in general it is not bad. Even capitalism, ideally, is committed to socialism. That's only in real life, these schemes do not work. Proven by Russia, China and Cuba.

Thank goodness somebody in here has some sense. Nor you make the most reasonable comments and its very satisfying to read you shutting down these ignorant claims.

Kudos Mate!

Again there are many examples of modern countries in the west with many socialist policies and they did not become Russia or Serbia in the 70's and 80's.

Italy has workers compensation and payed vacations of up to 6 weeks per year, France has free public schools with government funded nutritional lunches, and because many Nordic countries do not a low private schools their public schools are considered some of the best in the entire world. many European countries have free university and they all still maintain a healthy amount of capitalism and free market activity, again the blame belongs on the greedy not the system.

I live in Serbia and currently we're in a transition from socialism to capitalism and when I ask people that were living back in the '80s they said they wouldn't be going back and because of Tito, we're living shitty as we are today. Also, Serbia isn't considered a socialist country but we have free healthcare , school and collegde (if you have good marks and do the test, before enrolling in college, good). So why do some people force socialism if it always ends up with communism and totalitarianism and most of people who lived through it, wouldn't go back (also, there is some russian guy on youtube that talking about capitalism and socialism and why he left the socialist Russia).