That’s only because our miserable education system hasn’t properly taught about socialism and communism. Add to that the fact that there was no version of Nuremberg for the evils of the Killing Fields in Cambodia, the Holodomor in Ukraine, Mao’s cultural revolution, or North Korea to lay bare the depravities of Marx’s…

That’s the communist reason for sending them to gulags. Traitors to the party, reactionaries, and lucky farmers all got hauled off to gulags for their perceive or actual crimes against the party. In Cambodia, they were murdered for wearing glasses because only the bourgeois would want to read. What world are you…

On a small scale (e.g. communes) it results in free riders until the group dissolves. On a large scale, it results in genocide, starvation, and/or suppression of human freedoms. You can’t create a commune of unwilling people without an authoritarian bend.

The socialist option primarily involves working for no real paycheck. To quote the Russian prior to the fall of the Soviet Union, “we pretend to work, they pretend to pay us.” That seems a bit more exploitative.

Their website says differently. If you have an argument, it is with them, not me. From there website:

The Nordic model is low corporate tax rates, free market economics in almost all fields except medicine, high personal tax rates, and large social benefits. I understand socialism. In Marxist theory, it’s the transitional state before communism. In general definition, it is the social ownership of the means of…

You seem to think I’m not describing the Nordic model which works pretty well and has that social safety net people want without any of the horrible theft and collective ownership nonsense that socialists want.

It’s an accurate view. Nationalization of almost any industry beyond healthcare has consistently shown to not work. Even with health care, you see a great reduction in quality, but the increase in coverage still results in average better results (meaning generally worse coverage for everyone is on average better than…

It isnt trickle down. The point is to make the market investor friendly so people can easily start new businesses. New businesses mean new competition. Also, I explicitly outlined how to stop crony capitalism. Once a business exists and is successful, onerous regulations aren’t hard for the existing company. Sector…

Who nationalized the coal industries which caused them to stop being competitive which caused wages to stagnate which led to the strikes? Clement Atlee of Labour did that in 1946. Stupidly, the Tories went along with the postwar concensus for too long. Since Thatcher, the new consensus (by everyone who has held power)…

How so? What is a Jewish person supposed to be like?

LMFAO. the tax burden has literally never been on “the poor” in the US. The poor don’t even pay federal income taxes once you factor in credits and tax returns. The rich, upper middle class, and middle class will continue to pay for literally all of our federal tax receipts as they have done for at least the lives of…

Why? The Statue of Liberty was already a regift when Egypt shit out on paying for it. Just take off the poem.

He’s Jewish, so maybe.

The Root is four clicks to the left.

Because that isn’t ironic. Even if you don’t like the values of that stupid poem (which by the way is about American exceptionalism, not diversity given that we only let white Europeans into the country at the time), you can still value the person’s ability to express those ideas. That’s why conservatives basically…

Sure it is, haven’t you seen the new pride flag? It means sex, life, healing, sunlight, magic, serenity, spirit with the new addition of black and brown, it means black and brown people too.

That’s silly definition of socialism, unless you are in agreement that fascist economics is a leftist ideology based on socialism. Also, I’m a bit confused as to who these dead reactionaries are in this context and who is starving? We are so fat that we describe morbidly obese poor people as food insecure.

Because Sweden stopped with their most of their socialist policies in the 90s. They’ve been denationalizing shit for 20 years. I didn’t realize Rand spent her time talking about increasing private taxes to fund a welfare state as I did in my comment. I’m fine with social welfare, I just don’t want centralized control…

It relies on freedom to exchange goods and services between willing purchasers and sellers who both see a perceived benefit in their exchange. There literally couldn’t be a more moral system. Socialism is just theft, whether done by a dictator or by vote, it necessarily infringes on the rights of the citizenry. It…