I haven’t seen millionaire and billionaire advocates for Socialism (think Ted Kennedy and John Kerry and Bernie Sanders) and explicitly named Communism (think Jane Fonda) give up their wealth or status or move to a Socialist or Communist nation.
#YouFirst
Bookmark
It’s really simple:
Capitalism vs socialism is well demonstrated in Boeing B-29 vs Tupolev Tu-4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4
Socialism can’t create it. They copy it.
Recent polls...
Blah blah blah
Capitalims produces everything socialists/communists wish to “redistribute.”
Socialism/communism produces nothing socialists/communists wish to “redistribute.”
Socialism/communism can only exist as a parasite of a capitalist host.
Once a parasitic infection becomes large enough, both the host and parasite die.
It never sounded great to me ever since I heard classmates in elementary school say "I want to be in Karl's group so I don't have to work." F### from each according to his ability.
Socialism is completely de humanizing.
The give-away? Telling people they are not individuals but rather, ‘part’ of one huge, undifferentiated mass of ‘being’.
Sorry, pal...but I’m convinced that humanity is much better than that. Individuality is the most precious and essential aspect of life on earth without which there’s no point to existence. That’s just me, though
Comparing capitalism to socialism is flawed.
The flaw is comparing an economic form to a form of governance.
Capitalism exists in all forms of government including socialism.
The difference is in who owns and controls the capital, the people or the government.
The problem arises when the policy begins to cover those who are unwilling to contribute. This is a problem with the culture not with the concept. Government is too generous and some people are too lazy. Eventually the entire enterprise collapses. Socialism is the decaying of capitalism.
Walter Williams is a brilliant man, but he’s speaking into the roar of a hurricane. Only the banning of illegal public employee unions and the nationwide implementation of school choice will change the calculus.
Because so many people think they can get something for nothing.
Only the historically ignorant can believe Socialism is a good thing.
Stefan Molyneux: I HAD A THOUGHT...
https://youtu.be/zDEea9I7U3E
Socialists like to conflate “society” with “government.” In fact, that idea is very far from new:SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.Since government exists only because of the imperfection of society, cynicism towards society corresponds to naiveté towards government. Cynicism towards society is therefore necessary and sufficient to motivate someone to be a socialist.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. . .
were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no [government] . . .
security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
For that reason any one whose business is criticism - most certainly including journalists - will tend towards a socialist bent.
The problem is that the vast majority of Americans are socialists to one degree or another. And, to a very large extent, the
Of course, virtually every government employee and virtually every government contractor believes that the function of his bureau either provides an essential public good that markets will not supply or is inherently a natural monopoly that must be socialized. That holds whether the function is national defense, the Post Office, the production and display of great art such as “Piss Christ”, or research into the mating habits of fruit flies under the influence of cocaine.
Once hooked on welfare, and facing astronomical marginal income tax rates if they attempt to earn their own way, recipients of Medicaid, food stamps, Section 8, AFDC, SSDI, etc. have almost insurmountable incentives to favor maintenance of the socialist status quo.
But these two groups are not adequately large or influential to demand government expansion, nor do they provide the resources necessary to fund the government. So, Americans typically receive thirteen to seventeen years of socialist indoctrination in government schools. Continuously reinforced by propaganda in the news and entertainment media, this socialist indoctrination causes the vast majority of Americans to believe all sorts of nonsense about the benevolence and wisdom of government and its public servants.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Capitalism=West Germany....Socialism=East Germany
Capitalism=South Korea.....Socialism=North Korea
Global capitalism is a disastrous race to the bottom. We need tariffs and we need them now.
Capitalism is a business model. It exists everywhere to some extent. Socialism is a form of government. Red China, for example, may have a socialist (aka communist) form of government, but its economy is very capitalist, which should have Karl Marx spinning in his grave.