SOCIALISM (A MUST READ)
SENT TO ME THROUGH MY MYSPACE ACCOUNT:
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think
they are going to profit from it.
Hope you all saw President Obama's address to congress.
Just in case we are not sure of the concept, Socialism.
Socialism
Socialism refers to various theories of economic organization advocating
state, worker or public ownership and administration of the means of
production and allocation of resources, and a society characterized by equal
access to resources for all individuals with an egalitarian method of
compensation.[1][2][3] Contrary to popular belief, socialism is not a
political system; it is an economic system distinct from capitalism.
Socialists mainly share the belief that capitalism unfairly concentrates
power and wealth among a small segment of society that controls capital and
derives its wealth through exploitation, creates an unequal society, does
not provide equal opportunities for everyone to maximize their
potentialities and does not utilize technology and resources to their
maximum potential nor in the interests of the public.
Therefore socialists advocate the creation of a society that allows for the
widespread application of modern technology to rationalize economic activity
by eliminating the anarchy in production of capitalism[4], allowing for
wealth and power to be distributed based on the amount of work expended in
production, although there is considerable disagreement among socialists
over how and to what extent this could be achieved.
Socialism is not a concrete philosophy of fixed doctrine and program; its
branches advocate a degree of social interventionism and economic
rationalization (usually in the form of economic planning), sometimes
opposing each other. Another dividing feature of the socialist movement is
the split between reformists and revolutionaries on how a socialist economy
should be established.
Some socialists advocate complete nationalization of the means of production
distribution, and exchange; others advocate state control of capital within
the framework of a market economy. Socialists inspired by the Soviet model
of economic development have advocated the creation of centrally planned
economies directed by a state that owns all the means of production. Others,
including Yugoslavian, Hungarian, German and Chinese Communists in the 1970s
and 1980s, instituted various forms of market socialism, combining
co-operative and state ownership models with the free market exchange and
free price system (but not free prices for the means of production).[5]
Modern socialism originated in the late 18th-century intellectual and
working class political movement that criticized the effects of
industrialization and private ownership on society. The utopian socialists,
including Robert Owen (1771–1858), tried to found self-sustaining communes
by secession from a capitalist society. Henri de Saint Simon (1760–1825),
the first individual to coin the term socialism, was the original thinker
who advocated technocracy and industrial planning.[6] The first socialists
predicted a world improved by harnessing technology and combining it with
better social organization, and many contemporary socialists share this
belief. Early socialist thinkers tended to favor an authentic meritocracy
combined with rational social planning, while many modern socialists have a
more egalitarian approach.
Vladimir Lenin, perhaps influenced by Marx's ideas of "lower" and "upper"
stages of socialism[7], later used the word "socialism" as a transitional
stage between capitalism and communism.
Social democrats propose selective nationalization of key national
industries in mixed economies, while maintaining private ownership of
capital and private business enterprise. Social democrats also promote
tax-funded welfare programs and regulation of markets. Many social democrats
particularly in European welfare states, refer to themselves as socialists,
introducing a degree of ambiguity to the understanding of what the term
means. Libertarian socialism (including social anarchism and libertarian
Marxism) rejects state control and ownership of the economy altogether and
advocates direct collective ownership of the means of production via
co-operative workers' councils and workplace democracy.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think
they are going to profit from it.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think
they are going to profit from it.
Hope you all saw President Obama's address to congress.
Just in case we are not sure of the concept, Socialism.
Socialism
Socialism refers to various theories of economic organization advocating
state, worker or public ownership and administration of the means of
production and allocation of resources, and a society characterized by equal
access to resources for all individuals with an egalitarian method of
compensation.[1][2][3] Contrary to popular belief, socialism is not a
political system; it is an economic system distinct from capitalism.
Socialists mainly share the belief that capitalism unfairly concentrates
power and wealth among a small segment of society that controls capital and
derives its wealth through exploitation, creates an unequal society, does
not provide equal opportunities for everyone to maximize their
potentialities and does not utilize technology and resources to their
maximum potential nor in the interests of the public.
Therefore socialists advocate the creation of a society that allows for the
widespread application of modern technology to rationalize economic activity
by eliminating the anarchy in production of capitalism[4], allowing for
wealth and power to be distributed based on the amount of work expended in
production, although there is considerable disagreement among socialists
over how and to what extent this could be achieved.
Socialism is not a concrete philosophy of fixed doctrine and program; its
branches advocate a degree of social interventionism and economic
rationalization (usually in the form of economic planning), sometimes
opposing each other. Another dividing feature of the socialist movement is
the split between reformists and revolutionaries on how a socialist economy
should be established.
Some socialists advocate complete nationalization of the means of production
distribution, and exchange; others advocate state control of capital within
the framework of a market economy. Socialists inspired by the Soviet model
of economic development have advocated the creation of centrally planned
economies directed by a state that owns all the means of production. Others,
including Yugoslavian, Hungarian, German and Chinese Communists in the 1970s
and 1980s, instituted various forms of market socialism, combining
co-operative and state ownership models with the free market exchange and
free price system (but not free prices for the means of production).[5]
Modern socialism originated in the late 18th-century intellectual and
working class political movement that criticized the effects of
industrialization and private ownership on society. The utopian socialists,
including Robert Owen (1771–1858), tried to found self-sustaining communes
by secession from a capitalist society. Henri de Saint Simon (1760–1825),
the first individual to coin the term socialism, was the original thinker
who advocated technocracy and industrial planning.[6] The first socialists
predicted a world improved by harnessing technology and combining it with
better social organization, and many contemporary socialists share this
belief. Early socialist thinkers tended to favor an authentic meritocracy
combined with rational social planning, while many modern socialists have a
more egalitarian approach.
Vladimir Lenin, perhaps influenced by Marx's ideas of "lower" and "upper"
stages of socialism[7], later used the word "socialism" as a transitional
stage between capitalism and communism.
Social democrats propose selective nationalization of key national
industries in mixed economies, while maintaining private ownership of
capital and private business enterprise. Social democrats also promote
tax-funded welfare programs and regulation of markets. Many social democrats
particularly in European welfare states, refer to themselves as socialists,
introducing a degree of ambiguity to the understanding of what the term
means. Libertarian socialism (including social anarchism and libertarian
Marxism) rejects state control and ownership of the economy altogether and
advocates direct collective ownership of the means of production via
co-operative workers' councils and workplace democracy.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think
they are going to profit from it.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
..."And what these ignoramuses fail to realize is that, we have had socialism in some form as well. Social security, Medicare and VA hospitals, are all systems based on socialist economic methods. They say they don’t want to go socialist at the same time they say “tell the government to keep its hands off my Medicare.” Duh...
Brother Maxwell you call them ignoramuses, I call them spin masters who only twist things for their benefit whenever they see fit to do so. I hated economics with a passion... I just couldn't understand it & that's why I studied nursing in the university.
Canada has a pretty fair system when it comes to health care, but I will say that there are other challenges within the political system that I could do without out like their system of seniority in the work place that really creates "bullying" and harrassement by senior staff. It's systemic and that's just the way it is.