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Where I live I’m entitled to all these things, also a mother whether working or not is entitled to a monthly allowance for her children at €140 a month per child and every citizen is entitled to a state pension of €250 on retirement along with any private pension they may have, a reduction on fuel bills , free tv license and free bus and rail pass are also given to every citizen as a right. I’m an artist , the state values artists and as such I only have to pay 1 per cent tax.
During the crash when my country was on its knees all these entitlements were still paid.
My country is nor perfect but I find these systems laudable even though we are a capitalist country these systems are what to me anyway every society should have as the welfare of all citizens greatly benefits society.
I don’t mean to offend but normally I’m shouted down by Americans who call me a “commie , a red , or a Stalinist “ which I find hilarious and the ones that normally do it are the bible thumping idiots who actually claim when challenged that Jesus would have been against , Universal health care , social welfare and of course would have been all for carrying a gun.
Fortunately I’ve also conversed with many Americans who are of a like mind to me and who are also branded by their fellow countrymen as “commies “ .
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The unexamined thought is not worth thinking.
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Too many people fail to recognize how socialism and communism mesh with basic human nature to diminish and eventually crush the natural drive that people have to achieve, innovate and succeed. The incentives that abound in capitalist systems are largely eliminated, destroying peoples' initiative and enthusiasm for productive work. Once the public learns that being a laggard pays pretty much the same as being a workhorse, most people give up on the idea of putting forth extraordinary effort to produce. The result is a greatly diminished GDP and a corresponding reduction in the general standard of living. As misery spreads, effort dissipates and government oppression increases.
In addition to the damage done to peoples' natural work ethic, socialism and communism tend to incentivize the worst elements of societies to rise to the top of the power structure, hence the rise of history's worst and most murderous despots like Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot and Castro. When these kind of people see the opportunity to seize and hold power, they take it. When that power is threatened, they ruthlessly crush their opposition, often resorting to mass murder.
It's hard to believe that people still subscribe to the idea of socialism despite its horrific track record of failure, misery and death over the course of the last century. We need to do a much better job teaching the true history of this abomination.
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Thus, the whole thing of capitalism and communism being opposites is not true. Capitalists societies created the communist system to get free slave labour. Thus, world wars 1 and 2 were opportunities for communism to begin.
At the end of World War I communist Russia began. At the end of World War II communist China began.
Russia was not considered to be a successful communist country because it is too cold and near Europe.
Thus, a second world war was necessary to create another communist country which would be more isolated from the world and not so cold.
Soon after the end of world war II industries started pouring into China which became a haven for multinational industries who would have an endless supply of cheap labour.
Note - Banks steal from people by the use of a fractional reserve. The money that people earn is constantly being diluted by a steady increase in the amount of new money being printed by the banks. People work their whole lives to pay off a never ending debt due to inflated house and land prices. Thus, most people are slaves to the few rich families that control the system.
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- Failure
- Oppression
- Totalitarianism
- Hunger
- Death
Isn't socialism SOOOO great guys? Ahhhhh that good ol Cold War!"Americanism not Globalism, will be our credo." ~Donald Trump
"A communist is like a crocodile" ~Winston Churchill
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- Failure
- Oppression
- Totalitarianism
- Hunger
- Death
Isn't socialism SOOOO great guys? Ahhhhh that good ol Cold War!"Americanism not Globalism, will be our credo." ~Donald Trump
"A communist is like a crocodile" ~Winston Churchill
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- Failure
- Oppression
- Totalitarianism
- Hunger
- Death
Isn't socialism SOOOO great guys? Ahhhhh that good ol Cold War!"Americanism not Globalism, will be our credo." ~Donald Trump
"A communist is like a crocodile" ~Winston Churchill
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• Failure
• Oppression
• Totalitarianism
• Hunger
• Death
Isn't socialism SOOOO great guys? Ahhhhh that good ol Cold War!
"Americanism not Globalism, will be our credo." ~Donald Trump
"A communist is like a crocodile" ~Winston Churchill
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It is not very different from imperialism, stating that those who have something you do not have to be conquered and made to give you this something. The only difference is, imperialism deals with lands, and socialism deals with individuals.
It comes from a toxic moral ruleset and leads to unspeakable horrors on the societal scale, but it has a certain appeal in the eyes of some people who secretly dream of having more and doing less simultaneously. It is easy to sell to misguided masses, hence it is still popular, even in the capitalist societies that have achieved unprecedented success exactly due to discarding the socialist ideas.
Socialism is not something to be considered seriously. It is something to laugh at while drinking wine with friends; this is where its usefulness ends.
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The unexamined thought is not worth thinking.
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Where and when, have you heard of subservience, being politically pushed by the political right?
Evidence, facts, proof, links?
Because the below, looks like pure opinion?
"I don't like the idea of any subservience of the state whether it be from the political left or the political right."
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The unexamined thought is not worth thinking.
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But Hitler was a socialist. He only differed from traditional socialists in this regard on what social classes get the perks of the wealth distribution, and what classes get punished. Among most socialists, it is the enterpreneurs who are attacked; for Hitler, it was people with undesirable biological traits.
Hitler based his ideas on Mussolini's book on Fascism, and the economical system he described there was pretty much pure socialism, strongly centralised one - unlike, say, the Leninist version, which originally implied decentralised economical activity.
A right-wing dictatorship would be something like Pinochet's regime, or Lee Kuan Yew's Singaporean system: they featured wide economical freedoms and little wealth redistribution, but politically were very restrictive. Note how, while a dictatorship is a dictatorship, the economical freedoms of individuals were still respected.
Hitler is commonly attributed to the "right" because it is a widely held belief that nationalism/racism is a property of the "right" - but it really depends on how you define "right". If "right" is to be defined as individualist ideologies and "left" as collectivist ones (which is how they were classified originally), then Hitler by no means can be attributed to the "right" movements.
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@ZeusAres42
To be fair, hitler and the nazis were socialists who embraced the progressives idea of "genetic health", "racial health" and eugenics. hitler was far left.
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The unexamined thought is not worth thinking.
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Are we living in the day and age of Hitler, and the Third Reich?
Or are we living in the day and of the present 21st century?
Apparently using Hitler, as a leveraging conversation piece, by some the modern day Liberal leftists, to get over some of the Conservatives, is how some go about making a non talking point, by trying to use Hitler, at their mindful leisure?
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The unexamined thought is not worth thinking.
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The unexamined thought is not worth thinking.
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Perhaps that's true, but they also drive on the wrong side of the road in those countries.
Honestly though, what's considered a libertarian in Europe is a form of socialism, but in the US, a libertarian would be vehemently opposed to socialism. But in all fairness, when you replied to TKDB, you were obviously using the US measurement of left vs right.
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The unexamined thought is not worth thinking.
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The unexamined thought is not worth thinking.
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Massive tax increases on the wealthy invariably result in those individuals "voting with their feet", taking their money and setting up shop in friendlier environments. After all. when leftists simultaneously demonize and vilify the very people they intend to rely on to pay for all of their exorbitant promises, they create a powerful incentive for rich people to emigrate to countries that appreciate highly productive people and the benefits they bring to a society. As the source of the massive revenues dries up, the leftist politicians will always ramp up the class warfare attacks and put in place more comprehensive, tyrannical and confiscatory tax regimes in order to keep their gravy train running. This begins a cycle where the leftists grow increasingly desperate and radical in order to protect their power and money and the entrepreneurial class take whatever actions they deem necessary to protect and preserve their businesses and wealth. The mutual distrust, hatred and desperation to prevail has throughout history resulted in leftist governments whipping the lower classes into a frenzy of envy and rage and the end result is an orgy of mass murder.
Anyone who thinks this scenario could never play out in the United States is simply naive. I would imagine that millions of people thought it could never happen in France, Russia, China, Cuba, Vietnam, Cambodia or Venezuela, too.
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