A lot of people like socialism when you don't use the word socialism.
This is especially evident in banking, professional sports, and our military.
It is possible to have Pareto efficiency without allocative efficiency.
I know it has never really worked out but is the problem that the system cant work, has never been implemented properly, or just never had enough support?
Socialism never does work, it also would not happen without a war. The Constitution protects the United States government from being able to become socialist unless there was amendments. Which would never happen because three fourths of the states that is required for a new amendment would not happen. If it some how did get passed then the people of the United States's would figure out that socialism is a bad thing! they would then demand for it to be repealed. If the government still did not repeal the amendment then they would start taking away the people's rights. When the people's right were gone the American people would have a revolution and refuse to let the socialism system work.
Is socialism possible in the United States?
Watching what you call socialism.
Socialism is the alienation of people from the instruments of production.
It is a system where businesses and firms owned not by professionals but bureaucrats of government agencies.
Socialism is a system where success is punished and clerks operate the real products but empty plans. Socialism is a system, when the food disappear from official stores and appears only on the black market. Of course, socialism is possible in the United States. But I would not like it...
joG, see Kaldor–Hicks efficiency.
To sum it up, by shifting resources in the economy, a gain in benefit to one individual could be greater than the loss in benefit to another individual. Therefore, before such a shift, the market is not allocatively efficient, but might be Pareto efficient.
Newspeak, Newspeak, Newspeak
Capitalism is the alienation of people from the instruments of production. Workers are alienated from the product of their labour.
That would be big-C, Marxist-Leninist Communism based on the soviet model. Socialism doesn't need to involve much government bureaucracy; rather a direct network of democracy established through syndicalism and participatory economics.
If socialism=soviet model, then yes you're right.
But it doesn't.
Adjust your point of view for reality.
Corporatism: our current model of capitalism generating profit without responsibility and will probably destroy the Planet Earth.
Socialism: anything else
Is socialism possible in the United States?
What?
Grab a rifle and join the revolutionary vanguard. We will be the fist of the proletariat. The time has come, the time is now.
Again, what?
What are you not understanding comrade? We will never know if we do not dare. Pick up the rifle and spark the revolution. We have nothing to lose but our chains.
Except for our lives, our freedom, and of course our souls.
What is life as a slave? There is no God above or Hell below, only open sky. Pick up the rifle and join the fight comrade.