Socialism Explained

Well, I'm not a political animal but based on my observation no single type of society is perfect. Be it socialism or demo-crazy or capitalism. We've now seen the effects of the so called good system that is capitalist but it also ends up in a mess and brought a lot of suffering to the people. The problem of us people is that we tend to overlook that fact that things aren't always the same in the books. If we say that this system is better than the other and that these same system has its flaws and limitations, then why not collect the good of these systems and mold them into one so that we can have at least a near perfect system?

Hi flowerchilde, All socialists don't think alike but I agree true socialism alone can't work, especially as we think in today's society. I also believe that we must have some Socialism because Capitalism in it's purest form can't work either. Blessings.

Boy that's one way to prove a point. I hope that it was every student in the class who actually insisted that Socialism worked because if I was in that class as one who seriously disagreed, and I worked my butt off to get a good grade a still failed I would be ticked off. I hope they learned the lesson. And I hope the teacher still took their grades and graded them as individuals for what I hope would be at least two or three who really did try. Thanks for sharing this.

it was very well portrayed and explained. i like the way he showed what and how socialism works. he made them realized it on their own what it is. It is so ironic that for the longest time we have fought against communism and socialism but haven't we learned from that? i do not have anything against the idealism but what bothers me about socialism is the reality of it all, taking into consideration the human element. it would work if we are all mechanised, but we are not. during the late sixties and the early seventies, the world is fighting against communism and socialism and yet we see "hippies" congregate in communes.today, we are fighting against terrorism and poverty and yet the ones in power are the ones financially terrorizing the world and, under the rug, slowly inducing economic socialism. I saw this coming when the super powers were gearing towards a universal global system in which all nation is directly connected economically. now, look what happened! if one is one trouble, everyone is affected.

That fits all right. People need to see the results of their efforts. The more you put into something, the more you should receive. So if the government does everything there is no reason for anyone to try harder. In fact it will get worse and worse. The America were people worked two or three jobs, and who started small businesses just to get ahead, where extra effort was rewarded will be no more thanks to Obama and his socialists. It will be like Europe and like Canada where you only work so hard and that is it

The thing with Socialism is that the idea of it works but because of human nature Socialism is not going to work and never will be. There is some part in a human's mind that is greedy - and some people just tend to have that quality more in them than others. So therefore its those people who are going to be the ones, like above aren't studying which is just going to start a spirlling effect downward. So if the world was perfect - socialism would be what would be nice, but in reality I think competition is also healthy. If there isn't competition in this world nobody would want to work harder, be the best, etc. so I don't think we should have socialism.

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AWESOME, that explain socialism in a nutshell. Socialism rewards failure punishes success, so under socialism why would anyone want to be better than anyone else.

It sure does!

Absolutely! It all sounds wonderful in theory, but it's a total disaster in practice as was demonstrated very clearly by the 70 years of Soviet socialism.

fits to a "t" fact is, that if every one did a job they loved - so that shoe makers loved to make shoes and made them for the love of making them, and garbage men picked up garbage for the love of it, etc, then socialism would work, but how many garbage men are doing it for the love of their job, or sewage workers, or street sweepers... heck, how many health care people are wiping old people's butts, or day care workers wiping babies butts are there?

that is quite a good example of what socialism is. i don't believe ni socialism as an answer to the world's poverty or any problem facing a country. i believe that we could not take away what one worked hard for and give it to others who has less in life by forced. cause that would be unfair and that will be injustice. and i believe it may create some kind of complacency in people cause they will not give their right due in the hard work that they do cause they will remain the state of life no matter how hard they work in life. that will never work to make a nation succeed in life. no one will want to work hard for other's benefits. it is like giving free lunch to others from our own pocket. every person should strive to make their life better and not expect others to bring them to a better state of life. cause socialism will create passive attitude among the people.

This is a wonderful example on why socialism does not work.

I like this because it is honest! There are hordes of progressive profressors out there today (progressive isn't exactly the right word lol) teaching our children the exact opposite. They're treating kids the same, regardless of effort, trying to push through their view of the world. And this is why U.S. socialism, also known more truthfully as progressive elitism won't work. The progressive elitism today is where people on high want the 'little man' of the world to share while the implementers safely push the buttons from a distance to make it happen. It's considered intellectual or academic or w/e. The rest of the country is considered uneducated if they're not on board, and thus needing to be "taken care of" by their all-knowing wisdom. The ideology they're pawning off as socialism is believed to work because it's never been tested, according to them. They refuse to use any bad examples, so what they teach is fiction; pure theory, because, as anyone willing to learn knows, there is not ONE SINGLE example of socialism working without eventual disaster in the known world. Intellectuals think they can do a better job of it. And who better to believe such things than college kids who are passed through for simply agreeing with their professors? College is the point in your life when you're ready to drop everything you've ever learned and replace it with your holier than thou, condescending, nobody's-smarter-than-me skill-set of acquired knowledge morsels. A lot of college kids are more impressionable than small children. Pawning off your ideology on them can be criminal. It's refreshing to know that there are still real teachers left in America; teachers willing to test the widely accepted theory in order to prove or disprove its effectiveness. This should be the standard operating procedure for every teacher and professor in the country. No matter what the "idea" is, it should be thoroughly tested by those learning it. If that professor had simply said "No, it doesn't work" every one of those students would still feel they were right, because it's too easy to agree with a consensus.

I think that that story should be published in every newspaper and magazine in the world. Here in the United States nobody seems to realize or care that we are falling into socialism and, inevitably, into fascism. When the next three years have passed we will find ourselves as slaves unless we do something quickly.

Perfect description! How many of will quit our jobs if this country becomes a Socialist country? Especially if those that work make less than those that don't which is already happening in some cases. There isn't one single country where Socialism is successful.