Post by Tamrin on May 2, 2009 16:51:17 GMT 10
Introduction
Socialism, the word is today almost as bad as facism was after world war II. After the fall of the Soviet Union, people say that socialism was a fine idea, but it doesn't work in reality. Because one version of socialism (marxist dictatorship 1) didn't work I wouldn't rule out the whole concept. It's like saying that humanity is evil because of what Hitler did. You cannot judge the whole from one sample.
Why I am a socialist
I am not a socialist because I think it is possible to have an Utopian society. I am simply a socialist because the market has some built in errors in it and I think socialism is the best way to get rid of them. If you like to know more about socialism check out Why socialism, by Albert Einstein ...
Actually, it is not socialism that doesn't work in reality, it is capitalism that doesn't. I can give some examples:
Socialism, the word is today almost as bad as facism was after world war II. After the fall of the Soviet Union, people say that socialism was a fine idea, but it doesn't work in reality. Because one version of socialism (marxist dictatorship 1) didn't work I wouldn't rule out the whole concept. It's like saying that humanity is evil because of what Hitler did. You cannot judge the whole from one sample.
Why I am a socialist
I am not a socialist because I think it is possible to have an Utopian society. I am simply a socialist because the market has some built in errors in it and I think socialism is the best way to get rid of them. If you like to know more about socialism check out Why socialism, by Albert Einstein ...
Actually, it is not socialism that doesn't work in reality, it is capitalism that doesn't. I can give some examples:
- A totally free market will lead to economic depression like the one in the 1930s. There are computers programmed to buy and sell according to the "rules" of the market, but they are designed to cut off when a recession comes or else all computers would sell and the market would collapse. This shows that there has to be an external controll to keep the recessions away and keep the booms high.
- The market is totally unaware of, and unconcerned about, the wellfare of an individual.
- Some sectors of the market requires big companies so there will automatically arise oligopoly and monopoly and theese might be able to take control of the world.
- The market does not take concern about long term goals. Imagine a table with something that looks like a landscape with mountains and vallies. Now put a metal bullet on the table, and give it a good shaking. The bullet will roll to one of the valleys and stay there. This is a model of the market, which I think is in good agreement with fractal theory. The bullet does not "see" if there are deeper valleys that it could go to. For the same reason the market will miss its highest gain, because it can only see to the short term goals.
- Because of our present economy the earth is dying.
- What will happen when 1000.000.000 Chinese, x thousand Indians and everybody else want to buy cars?
- We are using the best topsoil to grow coffee, tobacco and other useless growths.
- Money has become a trading goods, which leads to many problems such as inflation and interest.