You just don't understand what socialists are trying to accomplish, so you are judging them by an artificial standard.
Asyou can see, on its own terms, socialism is a smashing success.
I suspect this is an Urban Legend.
We need to compile a book of these
One of my favorite stories is the one with the 5 diners who get charged according to their income.
So the poorest pay almost nothing, and then demand a refunded overcharge be given to the poorest resulting in them actually getting PAID to eat.
The next day the richest one does not show up for lunch...
The left are ‘babies that need to be taken care of’.
We on the right think socialism is a failure because individuals cannot strive and accomplish and reap the benefits of their own effort. Those who advocate socialism think it is a success because they think they will be the elites who use the system to control and manipulate their inferiors while siphoning off a confortable living for themselves.
In the Soviet Union, there was always little food on the shelves for the common man, but the Communist Party members lived like kings. Was the system a failure? Depends on whether you were a Party member or not...
Nah, if only the class had “The One” professor, it would have worked.
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It was at Bennington however, so in end he graded on the curve and they all got a B and everyone lived happily ever after.
I really like that story too. I’ve gotten it in email several times.
However...
I think if the class had one incredibly outstanding charismatic saint of a soul driven to be a savior to all and having absolutely no selfish motivations whatsoever and managed to win the complete trust of everyone...he could motivate everyone to knuckle down and do their best for the other people in the class.
That’s one possible scenario where socialism can work.(i know, long shot huh?)
here’s another...
If the class had one huge mean bully that everyone was afraid of and he sat on his fat a$$ and started breaking fingers off of anyone that didn’t perform up to his expectations...then possibly socialism could halfway function in that way...probably not prosper though.
This second scenario is probably less of a longshot but certainly not nearly as desirable.
Hmmmm...veeery interesting...
I just realized my two examples are very similar to a famous quote by ronald reagan:
“communism only works in heaven, where they don’t need it, and in hell, where they already have it.”
The conservatives sabotaged the class and should be shot!
One of the ugly little secrets of the left is that of immense hubris. Even though socialism has eventually failed everywhere it's been tried (and Marx clearly stated that socialism was designed from the beginning to be a transitional state into communism), the "True Believers" can't or refuse to grasp the fact that the entire concept of socialism is flawed from the outset. Instead, it's always that "socialism just wasn't implemented right," and the flaws were caused by the "wrong people" trying to make it work. And of course, the current crop of socialists are finally the ones who will "get it right."
Mark
Liberalism is a mental disease and a religion like Islam.
You just don't understand what socialists are trying to accomplish, so you are judging them by an artificial standard.
Asyou can see, on its own terms, socialism is a smashing success.
The left has convinced themselves that socialism will work, if only the right people are in charge. How they propose to get people to work hard when there is no reward... well, they haven’t figured that out... but they will! Just give it a try! What do you have to lose except everything you have worked your whole life for?
The left is blinded by their own quest for power and in that quest their power will cease to exist because there will be no one left to exert power on.
This is such a neat story. Reminds me: Some Canadian went on the radio—I think it was last Thursday—and really blasted all those people that bash Americans. He gave all these examples of how generous Americans are when there’s a natural disaster, and how they have liberated other countries. It was really great. Last Thursday or so.