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If you don't like capitalism go to a socialist country.
by lbrooks 7y ago
If you don't like capitalism go to a socialist country.
- TOGoS 7y agoGreat idea. Unfortunately every time people elect a socialist government the US backs a right-wing coup. So we gotta do it here, I guess.
- busterarm 7y agoNice meme, but doesn't exactly jive with the facts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_states https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_states
- TOGoS 7y agoSocialism, noun, "a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole." In how many of those states is that actually true? Maybe Cuba (which the US has been trying to overthrow for decades), and Kurdistan (oops guess who was completely abandoned by the US even though they were instrumental in defeating ISIS?), which that page doesn't even mention. The rest are some form of state capitalism. Certainly China is. Unless you think the workers democratically decided that being paid starvation wages to work in electronics factories to make cheap stuff for Americans was a good idea.
- busterarm 7y agoSocialism Happens > Socialist System Collapses > "That Wasn't Real Socialism" > (Repeat)
- TOGoS 7y agoCool bro. Please explain how Pinchochet's coup was the inevitable result of 'socialism' as opposed to that of imperialist aggresion.
- busterarm 7y agoLook, I used to work on political causes with the national chairman of one of the largest socialist parties in the US. At some point in my early 20s, I mentally outgrew that childish, ill-considered ideology and I'm glad that I did. I've heard every argument under the sun for why Socialism will work if only you "put me in power" and I don't buy any of them. Anyone arguing for it fundamentally does not understand human activity (behavior and history).
- iron0013 7y agoPersonally, I’m voting to make the USA a socialist country, like nearly every other first-world country on Earth is. I hope a lot of other folks will join me.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoSO maybe there's no agreement on what that word means. Because 'true Socialist' countries collapsed years ago. And look at Venezuela today. Not something to be emulated.
- ekianjo 7y agoThe funny thing is that if you don't like socialism but you live in a socialist country, well... you can't leave. They build walls to keep you in.
- _jal 7y agoPlease take your nonsense somewhere else.