Posted on 03/30/2019 4:13:12 AM PDT by Libloather
The point the author makes is there is not one single person in the whole world who knows how to make a pencil. Yet central planners beleive they can manage everyone’s demand for them.
Socialism is corrupt.
"No serious person makes this argument," says Richard D. Wolff, professor emeritus in economics at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst."
Nothing like trying to shut down debate by dismissing/devaluing the opinions of those who disagree with you. How 'intellectual' of them..
Consolidating power in the few, as socialism always does, breeds corruption.
It’s the hustler, not the game. Okay then!
We have plenty of corruption under capitalism. Under socialism, there is much more opportunity for corruption with concentration of power and cronyism, along with the necessary police enforcers.
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Socialism is total control over the economic life of a country. It is corruption.
I don’t see the difference between the two, but that’s me.
I’ll yield something to the Socialists: Lots of Republics failed and fail too.
However, with Republics, they improve. The US is a great deal more successful than the classical republics from 2000 years, and more, ago.
But, with Socialist states, each instantiation is worse than the previous one. They do get “better” as they go along, but the category they are better in is Corruption.
That was my immediate reaction, too. You cannot have socialism without complete top to bottom corruption and vice versa. They go hand-in-glove.
When the system cannot produce anything, the lowest level people have to make bribes to be able to buy any and all necessities of life. Corruption is thus woven into the very fabric of socialism.
The author and the “experts” he cites are very ignorant of real life.
Socialism=corruption.
Corruption exists everywhere. The freedom system, which BTW allows for capitalism to exist, makes it possible to deal with corruption because power is less concentrated. Socialism by definition restricts freedom and concentrates power. This makes corruption much harder to expose and eliminate.
That’s my take on it.
Socialism is corruption, it’s also many other things. What a load of garbage this author is spewing.
Socialism is corruption.
Socialism leads to corruption. Corruption leads to socialism.
they go hand in hand.
Socialism is corruption. A perversion of natural law.
Duh! Socialism breeds corruption! The two cannot be separated.
They have a point - but not a good one, because they ignore this truth: Corruption is the inevitable result of socialism.
So is dictatorship and total loss of freedom.
DUH!!!
Actually, they are cause (socialism) and effect (corruption).
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I agree!
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4 Scholars?
Socialism is an inherently corrupt system.
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