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I have no issue. No matter how it is done it does not work and is inherently evil.Wrong china is improving because of capitalism which by deinition returns power to individuals to control their own lives and solve their own problems.Because people are far better at solving their own problems than a central government is capable of doing.Socialism does not fail because of bad leadership it fails to to inherent stupidity of the idea.Somalia is anogther failed socialist state.Venezuela has failed insanely badly. Unless you think people eating their pets is a success.Capiyalism is still going strong socialism always fails.Government is not socialism.The ignorance of the right-wing is astounding."Social power".Only right-wingers allege that. The rest of us know that the social power to Tax is delegated to our representatives to Government.Morals to steal from people?If you had enough reading comprehension you would understand it take morals for that not right-wing fantasy.Face it, kid. You fucked up. There is no Biblical justification for the tyranny you want.Read some history of the Roman Empire.Please point out where the Roman government mandated this sharing.Slavery is not about free-market Capitalism.That is not a defense of slavery, nor does it lend legitamacy to an evil idea.They got it from the Bible.The basic idea is not about property calling it theft or not self made. The basic idea is " from each according to his ability and to each according to his need". This is the same basic idea behind slavery which is why it is no coincidence that every communist nation is a slave state.
But no they did not. There is no such scripture.
Nobody takes right-wingers seriously about any "gospel Truth". Appeals to ignorance is all right-wingers are best at.
All who believed were together and had all things in common; 45 they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need. ... Now the whole group of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common. ... There was not a needy person among them, for as many as owned lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold. They laid it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need.[25]
— Acts 2:44–45, Acts 4:32–35
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Again: Communism can work only in small communities and strictly voluntarily.
Only the Religious seem to be able to make it work. Not enough morals to go around among the secular laity?
You do know words have meanings, right? You don't get to make up new ones?
No such thing.
But it's HILARIOUS you believe you get to make up definitions! How insanely intellectually bankrupt!
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
It is accomplished via the social-ism of Government.
Socialism is a form of government which always fails.
That is fact in your face which has been proven time again but being a dishonest and immature right winger you still cling to a proven fallacy
It doesn't always fail at all. There have been a few examples of Socialism and they have failed because they struggled to deal with some of the fundamentals. I'm not a Socialist, but the doesn't mean it can't work.
People would say Capitalism has always failed too. Look at 2008.
Such a silly statement to make. How many Socialist countries have there ever been?
China. Hasn't failed
Cuba. Hasn't failed
Laos. Hasn't failed
Vietnam. Hasn't failed
Yes, Venezuela is failing badly.
Venezuela is a country run by people. Does this mean that ALL countries run by people will fail?
Plenty of capitalist countries have also failed. Somalia, Zimbabwe. Does this mean we should immediately stop capitalism?
Zimbabwe was barely a state at all.
Well, it was Socialist from 1969 to 1989/1991.
So, in theory it was a failed Capitalist state until 1969.
Zimbabwe actually was a pretty strong state. It had economic problems, the worst seemingly because of Mugabe's new wife. Now the crocodile's in, he seems to be a less competent leader than Mugabe (oh dear).
But whenever I went to Zimbabwe it seemed a better place than Mozambique or South Africa, less crime at least.
The point is that capitalist states also fail, and why? Because of bad leadership.
Often Socialism has failed because those implementing it are dictators. Like Pinochet in Chile, the military Junta in Argentina etc, a lot of DICTATORS FAIL.
The Socialist and the Capitalist.
And why is it stupid, exactly?
Well... not always true. China is clearly improving massively because they've taken the problem solving away from the people.
And the US is eating itself alive because people think they have this freedom to solve their own problems, but the country can't solve the problems of high crime.
The reality is, as a non-Communist, non-Socialist, is that you need a mixture of the two, in my opinion.
That China is forging ahead and will be ahead of the US at some point, suggests that your black and white image is not correct.
The US is succesful because we started thast way and still retain some of that self determination but it is being lost.'
Maybe the issue you're having is that you assume that Socialism must be done in one way. That's not true.
You could have a socialist company which has competition with another socialist company. China does this. China has many banks, Bank of China, China Construction Bank. ICBC, etc etc. All of them are controlled by the CCP. And yet all of them are competing with each other for business.
Xi has suggested that the state has a 50% control in all large companies. How this works out is yet to be seen. But if the state sits back and allows them to be capitalistic within China, competing with each other, but still essentially Socialist, then potentially it can work.
This is the issue with saying something can't work. Often these things could work, if they are able to figure out how to make it work.
Nothing can be figured out and made to work when every effoert to do so has failed and resulgted in genocide. The idea is not worth one corpse and you have endless piles of corpses you turn a blind eye to
You say it doesn't work. Define "it works" then.
Because China is working. It's taken millions out of poverty, it's increased GDP by more than double in the last 10 years. The people have hope for the future. What about it doesn't work that does work for the US?