Conservatives don't understand Socialism.
1) Socialism requires elective government just as capitalism does.
2) Socialism is an economic system.
3) Big international businesses are totalitarian states with economic power greater then that of most countries. Some may even have military power greater then many countries.
4) Socialism is the owning of the means of production by the government in the classic definition. Since much of labor today is involved in services this is no longer a good definition. A better definition would Socialism is the provision of goods and services by publicly owned companies.
5) Modern Socialism has merged with employee ownership of business.
6) If stock corporations were actually controlled by stock holders that would tend toward socialism as it would mean the people owned the company.
7) Modern socialism is simiar to Bismark's welfare state.
Half of Democrats Believe in Socialism
Southern Man
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Here are the results of a recent Gallup poll.
53% of Democrats approve of socialism. Weird that about a quarter of Republicans do too. Weird!
Small business, free enterprise, entrepreneurs get high ratings among
all groups but I believe it is the Conservatives that care about them.
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sbtbill 2012/12/13 19:17:08
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To a lot of democrats, paying for firemen, police, medicaid and so on is "socialism".
To others, socialism is a national economic system, as described in dictionaries and encyclopedias.
How can we have a good discussion if we don't first examine what we mean by socialism. The word means so many things to so many people right now and has been adulterated and polarized in our politically divided climate.
I answered no because I feel I have to go by the standard encyclopedia type of definition. I would answer yes if you ask me if we should invest in infrastructure and people...in education, medicaid, health, firemen, police and so on...
The root word of Liberal AND Liberty.
But, yes, most people who claim to support free markets are indeed fascists, who support monopoly and the human rights abuses that must necessarily follow. Out of every federal representative in the GOP (which claims to uphold free markets), I would suggest that only two genuinely do: Ron Paul and Rand Paul. The rest use it as a guise to bring fascism to us, just as the Democrats use "social justice" and the like.
2 ~ I live in Costa Rica and it is a democratic nation hol;ding presidential elections every four years.
3 ~ The government leaders of Mexico, Belize, Guatamala, San Salvador, Nicaragua and Panama are aso elected.
4 ~ Ignorance is not a virtue.
The bicameral Parliament of the USSR, the Supreme Soviet, consists of the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Nationalities. The Soviet of the Union is composed of 750 members* elected by citizens of the USSR voting by election districts, on the basis of one Deputy for every 350,000 inhabitants. The Soviet of Nationalities is composed of 750 members elected by citizens of the USSR, voting by Union Republics, Autonomous Republics, Autonomous Regions and Autonomous Areas on the basis of 32 Deputies from each Union Republic, 11 Deputies from each Autonomous Republic, 5 Deputies from each Autonomous Region and one Deputy from each Autonomous Area.
Both Houses were elected for a term of 5 years.
My stepmother is a Russian immigrant with family still living there. She is a good source of information on Russian politics.