- 08 May 2012 21:01
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There are a lot of people out there who constantly bash socialism as an inferior form of government and who want to push for more libertarian ways. I'd like to say why I feel that socialism is a positive form of government if done correctly and that non-governmental intervention can lead to much bigger problems than government rule.
First of all, socialism does not necessarily lead to an all powerful government-ruling dictatorship, such as China, Russia, or Cuba. Those are examples of socialism gone CORRUPTED, not true socialism. True socialism does not have a leader who is in power. China, Russia, or Cuba were NEVER true socialist countries, so let's get that out of the way straight up.
True socialism is the idea that each individual person looks out for the welfare and well-being of the ENTIRE community. True socialism does NOT have a leader who is pursuing selfish-interests. That would be a DICTATORSHIP, not a socialism.
Here's the problem with a free-market capitalism in which the government does not intervene: Selfish, greedy individual people eventually overrule and screw over 99% of the society by instilling unfair and unjust regulations. Thus, the society as a whole suffers. What we get from free-market capitalism is an OLIGOPOLY - a small number of rich individual firms dominating everyone else by hording ALL of the resources and not allowing any possible chance of competition. Thus, free-market capitalism isn't really free at all. It starts out free, but very soon after it leads to the very thing it was trying to displace from the beginning - a dictatorship.
The founding fathers of the United States clearly stated that the purpose of government was to be made BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE. Hence, government rule actually means society ruling together as 1, NOT dominated by a selfish, greedy individual.
First of all, socialism does not necessarily lead to an all powerful government-ruling dictatorship, such as China, Russia, or Cuba. Those are examples of socialism gone CORRUPTED, not true socialism. True socialism does not have a leader who is in power. China, Russia, or Cuba were NEVER true socialist countries, so let's get that out of the way straight up.
True socialism is the idea that each individual person looks out for the welfare and well-being of the ENTIRE community. True socialism does NOT have a leader who is pursuing selfish-interests. That would be a DICTATORSHIP, not a socialism.
Here's the problem with a free-market capitalism in which the government does not intervene: Selfish, greedy individual people eventually overrule and screw over 99% of the society by instilling unfair and unjust regulations. Thus, the society as a whole suffers. What we get from free-market capitalism is an OLIGOPOLY - a small number of rich individual firms dominating everyone else by hording ALL of the resources and not allowing any possible chance of competition. Thus, free-market capitalism isn't really free at all. It starts out free, but very soon after it leads to the very thing it was trying to displace from the beginning - a dictatorship.
The founding fathers of the United States clearly stated that the purpose of government was to be made BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE. Hence, government rule actually means society ruling together as 1, NOT dominated by a selfish, greedy individual.