to all the "euro" liberals...how can you possibly think socialism (nice way of saying communism) is better...

Question

than our (U.S.) demaocracy???

China Launches Crackdown on Kids Books
Saturday, May 26, 2007 1:25 AM EDT
The Associated Press


BEIJING (AP) — China has launched a crackdown on scary children's stories including the popular Japanese "Death Note" comic book series, state media said Saturday.

Authorities are ordered to seize "illegal terrifying publications" from vendors ahead of China's Children's Day on June 1, the Xinhua News Agency and China Daily newspaper reported.

http://www.adelphia.net/news/read.php?id=13721220&ps=1020&lang=en

please excuse any/all spelling errors...lol

Answer 1

Kant is liberal thinker whose perpetual peace is also utopia. because, he wrote his "perpetual peace" in the "perpetual peace bar" which was the near the grave. on the other hand, Thomas More is socialist whose "utopian society" is also utopia.
• His utopia has bedevilled critics for over four hundered years. Because , scholars agree that utopia presents a non-existent society located in space and time and that there are substantial satric elements in the book.
• Utopia means “no place” but it is a play on the world eutopia, meaning “good place”.
• Property is held common; there is no compettition and everyone works under direction for the common good. Economic equality provides that no one has to work to hard. Everyone has enough to eat, house , clote
• By potraying that society as authoritarian, hierarchical and partiarchal, he suggested that human beings must be controlled
• Set of detailed rules and regulation , people must be both encouraged and forced to obey.

Answer 2

You probably have not noticed but there are such things as "democratic socialist" parties that are actually democratic. Some may go under the description of "social democrats".

The world is a lot wider than you know or your corporation - controlled media is willing to allow you to know. You have been conditioned by such corporations and by government to believe that socialism is the same as communism, but it is not.

A long time ago Lenin described the Australian Labor Party (which was then a lot more socialist than it is now) as "bourgeois".

It's my personal opinion that most of the democracies in the world are more democratic than the USA, they don't have an elected king running a lot of things. The parliament is the governing body and the president is little more than a figurehead. A parliament is a lot more representative than a
president.

As for China, it is just a power elite running things for their own benefit. They call themselves communist but they are no more communist than any power elite. It is of course worse in North Korea where the boss is crazy.

As for the Chinese government censoring comic books, the same went on in the USA until recently and probably still does to some extent. Probably a good thing, in fact. There are many aspects of "culture" that we could well do without.

Libertarianism - yeah, just another idealism and as crazy in it's way as communism. I've read Ayn Rand. A lousy writer and divorced from reality. Probably neurotic, possibly psychotic. To the devil with all idealists.

Answer 3

I think many European countries are successfully applying socialist principles. Nothing is ever going to be perfect, but I certainly don't think there's anything evil about universal healthcare, childcare, etc. I'm sure they're also more relaxed than us, not trying to scratch and claw their way to the American dream. Communism, incorrectly applied is not good. Your source material is a good example of that. True Marxism is the rise of the people, not suppression of the people.

Answer 4

I agree that communism is bad, but there is a fundamental difference between communism and socialism. In socialism, there is democracy, and the government controls the means of production. In communism, a dictator rules in a share the wealth type system that rarely ever works for long, which is probably why more and more, China has been freeing up its economy to resemble capitalism.

And I am not a supporter of socialism either, I just feel that you should not make false slander against something that you disagree with.

Answer 5

Has nothing to do with Euro liberals as you call it.
1)Liberals in Europe are pro business
2)Social Democrats are still anti China
3)Even European socialists are anti China
China is a totalitarian state.Think this has more to do with that than with what side of the spectrum they are on
When I read this I have the same feelings of should I laugh,cry or both as when I read about that new Museum in your country.

Answer 6

if you can't tell the difference between Europe's governments (often called "social," as you basically describe it) and China...

maybe you should just leave the section now...

or get in a time machine and go back to the 50s where your view of the world belongs...

Answer 7

ok, 1st of all...the inside of the old Soviet Union and Communist China are really totalitarian rule by a small group...the so called communism they practice is actually more like a monarchy ruled by several families...the "socialism" they practice is for all the little guys they don't care much about...

In America, we Liberals are not Communist...we just want social justice....If the US allows the richest among us to get all the wealth and control our lives, we will become slaves...I am not against Capitalism (Liberals are in fact in favor of Capitalism)...but we need to remember that all people are involved in the creation of wealth...I like the threat of labor unions against bad corporate CEO's

Answer 8

Ahem! Chinese are no longer socialistic. And to come to think of it, I find much of today's fiction scary and trashy. USA practice freedom? Are you sure? Or joking?

Answer 9

European here and there is a huge different between socialism and communism. I gather you never been out of the states? Thought so so you base your views on what the media tells you.

Answer 10

I believe that fascism is superior to g a y socialism/communism.