Whats wrong with the idea of socialism ?

Question

first off i want to say im a white , male , american citizen .

ok well i know it has never worked but whats so scary about equality . why cant we mix soclialism with demorcrazy . i know that people fear dictators . i dont believe in a dictator either . i like the way our countrys government is set up . i just dont like the people that run it and i think that every decision the president or congress makes should be voted by the people and we should only have one political party . that way no one can hate someone because their republician or democrat . am i crazy ?

i think the president should have as much power as the royal familly in england.

Answer 1

The perception is that its something like what the USSR became....where there is no free enterprise at all and everything is government controlled.This leads to a country that has no incentive to create things since you cannot profit from it, and there are shortages of things that people really need as the government cannot really anticipate whether people want more sugar, flour, shoes, or bed spreads etc.. and I agree...that would be a nightmare and many people who used to live in such and environment are ecstatic to get away from it.

However, traditionally the USA has not been a pure capitalistic society either. From the beginning and over time, we have come to realize that while we value free enterprise, we do acknowledge some roles for government whether its to build roads, provide a common national defense, police and fire departments, social security, medicare etc... There is some socialism as part of what america is...and that is not a bad thing.

Whats really best for us is to avoid the extremes such as what the soviets had or extreme capitalism as people like Bush and Cheney seem to want for us. We dont want socialism or communism nor do we want fascism either.

Right now in the USA there has been a trend away from the center, to the extreme right..or fascism......or corporatism/militarism as some would call it.

Answer 2

Socialism is a ideal way of thinking, but for one factor human greed and laziness. If everyone would work equally and participate equally it would be a wonderful system. Does everyone deserve equal? Look at the current system everyone has the chance for at least a high school education and they will not even take advantage of that. Instead they choose to drop out and enter the work force. You are correct however that the current political system is broken; too many rich lawyers on capital hill trying to make a name for them selves. The reasons for too parties or even more is so that people of like mindedness can join together and express their opinions and have elected officials that should follow a similar mind set. Yes the republicans do have a habit of supporting big business and the Democrats support more along the lines of social issues, but that is a whole different discussion. The current politician only seem to support the bill that they believe has the biggest pockets. How do they get away with being that way? Have you looked at the percentage of people registered to vote and the percentage that actually do? Unless people are involve in making choices and letting the officials here there opinions the political system will continue have serious problems.

Answer 3

The idea you propose follows a very strong argument. I would like to applaud you on knowing the difference between socialism and democracy. Socialism is a form of economy, while democracy is a form of government. It is entirely possible to have a democratic government and a socialist economy. Like wise you can have a dictatorship in free market. However, socialism requires that all people get the same amount and treatment for their labors. This may sound good, but it promotes a lazy attitude amongst the people. "Why should I work harder if I get the same no matter how hard I work?" This is the major downfall to socialism, it has proven time and again to fail. As far as political parties, they very much upset me. I want a leader that is going to represent me and not a political party that I do not belong to. For example I am anti-abortion, but also anti-war. I therefore have no choice in who I vote for since in one party I must be pro-abortion, anti-war, and in the other party I must be the opposite. There are many other issues that I struggle with, and I feel the presence of the two party system is going to lead to an eventual revolution. I hope not in my life time.

Answer 4

It is a good idea, but will never work. Ever work with someone that just puts in time at work and doesnt push himself to get much done?

Well that is the entire socialistic system in a nutshell, you need reward for a hard days work, no one wants to waork 2 times harder than the jerk next to you that is milkin the clock.

Just human nature, I think a better way is get rid of the CEO's thaqt make 50 million a year , I mean is anyone worth that much?

Cap wages around 5 million a year, tax the rich, not harsh but harder than the poor.
Eliminate the Bill gates of the world, not kill them just make it so no one person can acculmulate that much. Would be a start.
How about every 50 years the land and houses revert back to the original owner, this way is someone really screwed up it would return for the kids, no more bankruptcys.

Answer 5

Socialism is an economic model that permits and requires govt ownership of most major resource production (farms, factories, utility companies, etc). Other than that, it allows private ownership of property and private companies.

Socialism can exist equally well under almost any political mode, from pure democracy all the way through to fascist totalitarianism.

Your concept of having one political party directly violates the Constitutional guarantee of free association. But you could have no political parties, and get most of the same result.

As for direct voting, again the Constitution does not allow that. But you could implement something equivalent by having Congress pass a law that binds each Representative and Senator to the votes of their Constituents. Same net result.

But Congress would never give up their power that way.

Answer 6

interesting question. I hope my answer is equally interesting.

Congress is supposed to listen to the people. However, when they run their campaigns, they make it clear what THEIR PERSONAL OPINIONS are.

I could be, say pro life. But if my entire constituency voted pro choice, as their elected "REPRESENTATIVE", I would have to vote the way THEY want me to.

That doesn't happen. Tho, Socialism isn't going to change that either.

But we agree that every decision should be voted on by the people - I think through the Representation of Congress.

Two parties allows people to identify other people who likely have similar interests. I don't always like what "the other party" says or does, but I certainly respect their opinion.

You're not crazy. We all have to get along.

However, socialism doesn't reward ingenuity. It takes away the incentive to build better technology, or medicine.

We're not the most medically advanced nation because of accident, but because of fair competition for capitalism.

There's nothing wrong with that, and in many ways, has improved our society. Taking away that incentive would not generate anything new.

Answer 7

Well, think there should be no political parties. Because, in my opinon, we cannot get things accomplished unless we work together in a bi partisan nation.

Socialism can work in a democracy, it's just that no onne wants to try it, because there afraid. If it DID actuallly work, maybe things would not be so bad. But it never has worked, so why all the sudden would it work now.

There is nothing wrong with equality, which is why the founding fathers believed "all men were ccreated equal." This means morally equal, not economically equal. Like, they should all have the same rights, regardless of heritae, or race.

Answer 8

comparable to Capitalism: corruption. the certainty of the U. S. in the present day is our maximum enjoyed attributes are socialist. the Police, the fireman, the positioned up workplace, the roads, the sidewalks, the government. think of in case you had to pay a financial company to stroll on the line. an exceptionally extreme question in the present day is has our government long previous deepest; to the utmost bidder, the main important marketing campaign donation. the suited wingers propaganda likens privatization to inventives for the little guy to be engenious, useful, and efficient (which all of us agree is robust.) yet their genuine effortrs are to maintain the federal reserve device controlled with the help of a private secret society (it somewhat is undesirable.) pass to youtube or google video and watch the movie "the money masters." Answering your question, organic socialism's best illness is the lack of ability of incentives for productiveness. human beings prefer an incentive to do properly. organic capitlaism wreaks while too few human beings corner the capital and then make the main those without capital. we are blended in the present day of the two socailism and capitalism, and in all probability the excellent variety of government makes use of the two princieples. however the main extreme characteristic of government is ethical integrity and the prefer to do the main stable for the main individuals. The stark certainty is the has constantly been vast corruption in government and constantly will. my own very own opinion is the founding fathers best blunders became the lack of ability of the 4th branch of government: The Police. massive company donations are bribery a criminal, so is accepting them. Our washington politicians could very almost all be at the back of bars. Corruption is so rampant suited now. If we take a pledge to take care of the form heavily, we would desire to constantly all be in massive tanks in wahsington taking our shape returned.

Answer 9

Pure socialism doesn't work. Pure Capitalism doesn't work.

What works best is a hybrid; a combination of the two. Canada, England, France, Sweden and other countries have versions of that, and all those versions work better than the U.S. system in terms of creating sound and healthy societies.

The U.S. is powerful militarily and monetarily, but it's society is imploding. In the long term, that will be the demise of America. The writing is already on the wall, and it only promises to get worse.

Answer 10

one political party is communism and you should once again move to europe the idea is good but not everyone is going to work there hardest and there is no reason to become a doctor or further your education if you are going to get paid the same so basically freeloaders that live with their parents just sitting around and will still complain even though they get the same amount of money as a neurosurgeon that has high stress levels