Socialism vs Capitalism

neither. extreme capitalism supports greed and inequality. extreme socialism hands control over to the government. in both cases power is held by only a few, and power is always corrupt. as with just about everything a balance is best.

I agree with you. If one person makes money that will benefit others. Look at New York city and the no Wall Street Bonus. Everyone suffered right down to the dishwashers in the restaurants. That is true socialism - every one sufferers equally.

You live in a mixed economy, an economy that benefits from socialism and capitalism. You have no idea what a purely capitalist society is like; look at Victorian England, the vast majority of the populace malnourished and in extreme poverty. Children working in appalling conditions and workers subject to being laid off at a moments notice with no right of appeal at the whim of the employer. Workers paying 1 pennies to sleep in a room so crowded people could only stand and 2 pennies for the right to sleep with their arms hanging over a line. I could go on! Enjoy any kind of rights as a worker? A lunch break? Safe working environment? These were rights won for workers of the world by those brave heroes and martyrs of the British Socialist movement, who were murdered and persecuted that you enjoy them all the best urban

Socialism and ultimately communism makes everyone equal - equally the slave of the state. Capitalism has its faults, especially when businesses become too big and powerful, but i would rather live in a free country than in a communist one. At least in a capitalist country everyone can have the hope that with hard work, they can possible make it to the top someday. In a communist country, there is no hope, you can never get ahead even if you work hard. And its discouraging to even try to work, when you see all your hard work just profiting someone else who isn't working.

socialist: government ownership, there is no private property, the transition between the capitalist-communist capitalists: the ownership of capital is determined by personal / corporate, free market competition Communist: - Elimination of the state as a bourgeois institution .. - Elimination of the ownership of the means of production .. - Activities regulated communal economy .. - Each person according to his ability to work and everyone got in accordance with what they need .. So ... I select and support the communists ...

How about an alternative, like " thevenusproject.com " by Jacque Fresco. a replacement for our troubled capitalism and doomed communism with an environment in mess.