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| Juncoph:
can we just accept that the western world has actually hit an excellent balance between socialism and capitalism? the world economy is firmly laissez-faire, and we still get to have things like public education, emergency services, and roads. it's far from perfect, and we have tons of corruption, but that's just how powerplay works. no totalitarian communist collectives purging intellectuals and the wealthy and no anarchocapitalist plutocracies where human rights are seen as optional in the eyes of the mega corporations. unless we root up all cultures' understanding of dynastic inheritance, true meritocracies are an impossible goal past the founding generation. |
| LeisureSuit912:
Socialism would only work when human labor essentially becomes obsolete (and we may be seeing ourselves on a path towards that with the growth of automaton, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU) and we have no need whatsoever for capital or economies in general. We'd first have to eliminate the concept of wealth before we'd even consider a full-on socialist society. On the other hand, trying to emulate aspects of a socialist economy, such as more government intervention in the economy (aka social democracy) would work within the framework of a capitalist society. So basically you could go Bernie Sanders but not full-on Karl Marx. |
| Perry:
communism in theory is like a bunch of body parts mushed together expected to work with each other and provide communism in practice is a body with no brain. it doesn't function and just eats itself |
| Frequency:
--- Quote from: Juncoph on January 11, 2017, 01:43:31 PM ---can we just accept that the western world has actually hit an excellent balance between socialism and capitalism? --- End quote --- i mean i can get behind that good post |
| Ninja Decoy:
Communism is an idea that sounds good on paper but will never really work in the real world. |
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