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Not without central planning and state ownership of enterprise he hasn't. What he's describing is just a somewhat 'Social' Liberalism.
by bcoates 13y ago
Not without central planning and state ownership of enterprise he hasn't. What he's describing is just a somewhat 'Social' Liberalism.
- chris_mahan 13y agoAnd how do you achieve education for all, healthcare for all, and basic income for all without central planning? And how do you achieve basic income for all without heavy regulation? Heavy regulation is the same as state ownership, except that the state then uses private investors as owners, but the owners don't get a say in the way the company is run (because of the heavy regulation).
- bcoates 13y agoTaxes? There doesn't seem to be a very high correlation between how many of these social programs a country implements and how heavily the state involves itself in businesses. I'm not even arguing that these projects are good ideas, just that they're fundamentally from an entirely different political and economic philosophy than the actual system that existed in the Soviet Union.