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Socialism requires that the government has more resources and thus more power. Therefore socialist governments are more likely to become corrupted and mismanage
by seibelj 10y ago
Socialism requires that the government has more resources and thus more power. Therefore socialist governments are more likely to become corrupted and mismanaged.
- jbhatab 10y agocompletely agree with this. Obviously nothing is certain but it's a strong factor and time brings this out.
- pm90 10y agoHow is this any different from capitalist oligarchies? In that case, the power and resources are not aggregated in a single government, but split over many private individuals.
- cageface 10y agoIt's a matter of degrees. At least in most capitalist countries the press, no matter how emasculated, still functions as a check on corruption to some degree. Communist/socialist countries tend to control the press, and hush up exposés of corruption, which makes it much worse.
- SixSigma 10y agoThe Obama administration has secured 526 months of prison time for national security leakers, versus only 24 months total jail time for everyone else since the American Revolution. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/05/obama-has-sentenced-whistleblowers-to-31-times-the-jail-time-of-all-prior-u-s-presidents-combined.html http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/05/obama-has-sentenced-w...
- cageface 10y agoSure the press in the US is currently in a pretty bad state. But after living in a communist country for the last five years I can tell you for a fact it can get much worse.
- lhopki01 10y agoCapitalism has nothing to do with freedom of the press.