Originally posted by badgerprints
This is because it caters to those who don't want to provide their own food, clothing, housing, or pay for their doctor bills.
This is simply not true. In a socialist system you the worker would own the means of production, an equal share in the company you work for. There
would be no private ownership, and what is produced is equally shared between those who produce it. It's about taking the profit out of private
hands, and putting in the hands of those who actually create that profit through their labour.
Under socialism you would be required to be responsible for your community, not just be a leach upon it like the capitalists.
It has nothing to do with free hand outs. As I explained in my last post, socialists support social programs, only under capitalism because it's a
necessity. Capitalism creates a poverty class, and a pool of unemployed labour. Your capitalism requires this, and if people take advantage of it,
how is that any worse than capitalists taking advantage of the poverty they create? Some of us are just trying to get by, some want everything
you've got and more...Those with the power to do so will convince you to give what you've earned, from your labour, to them for something you really
don't need. They don't care a crap about you, they just want your money, you're a cash machine. And for what?
A good example, an employee is employed to make bread. The private owner provides the supplies, the worker supplies the labour for a wage. Then the
employee gives the employer back his wage to buy that loaf of bread, at a profit. Wouldn't it be more efficient if the worker just kept the loaf he
made?
In large countries with big goverment it is very hard on the people that actually achieve and not so great for anybody but the politicians.
Socialism is NOT big government,
that is the lie. Socialists are traditionally anti-government, and anti-state. It was Marx and Lenin etc.
that tried to con people into excepting a perverted form of socialism, that was really nothing but another system allowing an elite to control
everything.
No different than those that con you with capitalism. Just another set of bigots with their rifle sights on you.
Capitalism, Socialism ...........Fairy Tales.
Socialism has always been the workers opposition to capitalism. It simply puts the power in the hands of you and me, and takes it away from private
individuals who use it to their own advantage, and the detriment of the majority.
You shouldn't fear socialism, but you should fear ANY government who CLAIMS to be socialist. Socialism is only what WE make it, not what someone
else tries to dictate to you. Socialism is traditionally anti-authoritarian, anti-state, so a
socialist government is an oxymoron.
Socialists are traditionally anti-government and anti-state. Socialism is control by the people, capitalism is control by money. So ANY system where
the people have control, as apposed to government or private individuals, is basically socialism. So if you support the idea of true liberty, then you
should be a socialist by default.
If you want a true non-government/authoritarian system then look into Libertarian Socialism.
