Which side will win?
2007-09-02 00:18:13 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Ret Sgt: Don't worry chief, i put him on my blocked list after reading what he posted. I highly suggest you might want to do the same. One by one. Good answer.
2007-09-02 01:24:14 · update #1
I'm afraid not Westhill: My question is in fact what is "exactly' occurring.
2007-09-02 01:44:18 · update #2
However if you are referring to the socialists as the authoritarians, then you are indeed correct.
2007-09-02 01:51:32 · update #3
Disregarding Just goodfolks reprinted manifesto, I'll side with independence.
Read between the lines on the manifesto listed. There is re-distribution of wealth in there along with "solidarity" This term is used plenty in socialist countries. It means all the sheep follow the same direction.
Before accepting any manifesto or belief system, make sure you understand it completely.
2007-09-02 01:17:22 · answer #1 · answered by Ret. Sgt. 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
That's not a choice we're facing in America. It's more like freedom vs. authoritarianism. The authoritarians have been taking away our civil liberties at the drop of a hat, and they seem to be winning at the moment.
2007-09-02 01:25:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They aren't opposites.
Democratic socialism is an international movement for freedom, social justice and solidarity. Its goal is to achieve a peaceful world where these basic values can be enhanced and where each individual can live a meaningful life with the full development of his or her personality and talents and with the guarantee of human and civil rights in a democratic framework of society.
13. Freedom is the product of both individual and cooperative efforts - the two aspects are parts of a single process. Each person has the right to be free of political coercion and also to the greatest chance to act in pursuit of individual goals and to fulfil personal potential. But that is only possible if humanity as a whole succeeds in its long-standing struggle to master its history and to ensure that no person, class, sex, religion or race becomes the servant of another.
14. Justice and Equality. Justice means the end of all discrimination against individuals, and the equality of rights and opportunities. It demands compensation for physical, mental and social inequalities, and freedom from dependence on either the owners of the means of production or the holders of political power.
Equality is the expression of the equal value of all human beings and the precondition for the free development of the human personality. Basic economic, social and cultural equality is essential for individual diversity and social progress.
Freedom and equality are not contradictory. Equality is the condition for the development of individual personality. Equality and personal freedom are indivisible.
15. Solidarity is all-encompassing and global. It is the practical expression of common humanity and of the sense of compassion with the victims of injustice. Solidarity is rightly stressed and celebrated by all major humanist traditions. In the present era of unprecedented interdependence between individuals and nations, solidarity gains an enhanced significance since it is imperative for human survival.
16. Democratic socialists attach equal importance to these fundamental principles. They are interdependent. Each is a prerequisite of the other. As opposed to this position, Liberals and Conservatives have placed the main emphasis on individual liberty at the expense of justice and solidarity while Communists have claimed to achieve equality and solidarity, but at the expense of freedom.
19. Forms of democracy of course may vary. However, it is only possible to speak of democracy if people have a free choice between various political alternatives in the framework of free elections; if there is a possibility for a change of government by peaceful means based on the free will of the people; if individual and minority rights are guaranteed; and, if there is an independent judicial system based on the rule of law impartially applied to all citizens. Political democracy is an indispensable element of a socialist society. Democratic socialism is a continuing process of social and economic democratisation and of increasing social justice.
20. Individual rights are fundamental to the values of socialism. Democracy and human rights are also the substance of popular power, and the indispensable mechanism whereby people can control the economic structures which have so long dominated them. Without democracy, social policies cannot disguise the dictatorial character of a government.
21. There can be no doubt that different cultures will develop their own institutional forms of democracy. But whatever form democracy assumes - nationally or internationally - it must provide full rights for individuals and for organised minority opinions. For socialists, democracy is of its very nature pluralist, and this pluralism provides the best guarantee of its vitality and creativity.
22. Freedom from arbitrary and dictatorial government is essential. It constitutes the precondition whereby peoples and societies can create a new and better world of peace and international cooperation - a world in which political, economic and social destinies will be democratically determined.
2007-09-02 00:55:16 · answer #3 · answered by justgoodfolk 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Neither and both.
Even in an "Independent" country there is "Socialism" to care for the poor, the sick and the old.
2007-09-02 00:39:06 · answer #4 · answered by peggy m 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Independence most people don't want there government to control them anyway.
2007-09-02 00:36:13 · answer #5 · answered by Jeremy P 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
hopefully independence, i don't like to be told what to do.
2007-09-02 04:11:14 · answer #6 · answered by ♥Charmed One♥ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋