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Originally posted by Dostoevsky
Originally posted by Strange Famous:
Socialism has never and will never work.
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If that is true, what do you mean by "work"?
My definition of an economic system "working" would be that it is in the best interests of the people that it commands.
Capitalism
persists, but I wouldn't say that it "works".
The whole point of socialism is to eliminate natural problems, so that people are able to deal with human problems.
If someone in America wants to be a poet, they have every right to do that. But under the Darwinism of capitalism, if they are not profitable in there poetry, they deserve to starve. It is the way of Nature.
In capitalism there realy isn't freedom in what you want to do with your life, because it really comes down to profit: can you afford to do what you love?
I heard someone recently flaming socialism and they said, "if they [people living in socialism] don't have to work, they can just sit on their asses and be lazy?" They might not 'work' in a factory, but that doesn't mean they aren't creating something, they just aren't shut in a factory churning out widgets.
I recently read the
Communist Manifesto by you-know-who. I was shocked at how little he talked about communism; 90 percent of that book was a documentation of the real effects of capitalism. He even talked about free trade.
If you want to learn about capitalism and free markets, read that book.