Do the workers and employees collectively own and democratically manage the means of production and distribution?
The US is thinly veiled corporatism and on the way to full blown fascism.
Is the U.S. officially a socialist nation?
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2012/06/28 22:51:31
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Sodahead Founders are Fascists 2012/06/28 23:11:53
Or maybe I'm just tired of people from my school saying that they're moving to Canada because Obama is a socialist or some crap, even though Canada has long had more socialized healthcare, which has been far more successful than ours in most cases.
The repug. argument that businesses won't grow unless they get more tax breaks or more deregulation is pure crap. They are already sitting on a pile of money, and still aren't growing. This is be...
The repug. argument that businesses won't grow unless they get more tax breaks or more deregulation is pure crap. They are already sitting on a pile of money, and still aren't growing. This is because the middle class no longer has the spending power that we had in the 80s, and since the banking and housing crisis, we now don't have the borrowing power we once had. Until more money is put back into the middle class, businesses won't have the demand for their goods and services to justify growth. The issue here is supply and demand, not taxes.
Here is a brief definition of socialism via wikipedia... Socialism /ˈsoʊʃəlɪzəm/ is an economic system characterised by social ownership and/or control of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy,[1] and a political philosophy advocating such a system.
A socialist economic system would consist of an organisation of production to directly satisfy economic demands and human needs, so that goods and services would be produced directly for use instead of for private profit driven by the accumulation of capital, and accounting would be based on physical quantities, a common physical magnitude, or a direct measure of labour-time.[5][6] Distribution of output would be based on the principle of individual contribution.
haha... that last part made me laugh, thank you.
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Politically, we are a Representative Democracy, economically we're capitalist. Certain things like welfare, Social Security or even unemployment compensation could be said to be socialist policies but its not like we're turning completely socialist.