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Is socialism possible in the United States?
Is socialism possible in the United States?
What do you mean by socialism? Do you mean a communist system? Then no. If you mean more like a Scandinavian system, its possible but not very likely. However, the system we have is a mixed economy. Medicare is the largest socialized medicine program on earth. Social Security is huge. As is Medicaid. So socialism is indeed possible in the USA just like it is in every developed economy on earth.
Is socialism possible in the United States?
Is socialism possible in the United States?
Corporatism: our current model of capitalism generating profit without responsibility and will probably destroy the Planet Earth.
No.
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Of course it is. And it is pretty much the inevitable direction that we're going in. The last five hundred years have been a continual march away from aristocracy and towards egalitarianism.
See the pattern? The socialization of labour and the centralization of capital.
Hope all you want.Workers will one day be able to take control of their workplace and institute democracy, at least that's what I hope - and that's ultimately what socialism is about: democracy.
Grab a gun and lets find out.
Is socialism possible in the United States?
It ain't gonna happen that way. It isn't their workplace.
It is their employer's workplace, which will only change to - it is the government's (the employer) work place.
In the USA? It has been trying a number of times and has never worked. But there are different ways a socialist society can be constructed and they run their course differently and crash along different paths. But they all have a built in destabilizer. Socialist societies have large mechanisms for massive redistribution from the allocative optimum. This means they do not find efficiency. This does not mean that the welfare of the society cannot be higher after redistribution. I have, however, never seen a model of social redistribution with a stable sollution of welfare above the allocative optimum8.
meant to post this on the poll page. Not sure if i should start a new one or if a mod will move it.
i will move it to polls.
In the USA? It has been trying a number of times and has never worked. But there are different ways a socialist society can be constructed and they run their course differently and crash along different paths. But they all have a built in destabilizer. Socialist societies have large mechanisms for massive redistribution from the allocative optimum. This means they do not find efficiency. This does not mean that the welfare of the society cannot be higher after redistribution. I have, however, never seen a model of social redistribution with a stable sollution of welfare above the allocative optimum8.
I believe that if a bunch of people want to start a company and make a product they should. If they want to also be the workers, that is fine.I believe everyone should benefit from their country's resources; we have the technology to make that a reality, too.
So you don't think companies could be controlled democratically and share profits amongst themselves?