(April 18, 2017 at 12:56 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(April 18, 2017 at 4:22 am)Tazzycorn Wrote: The problem with the Soviet model was that it paid all too much attention to the dictatorship and all too little to the proletariat. Capitalism engages in the same type of problem from the other end, paying too much attention to the system and not enough on the people.
I did say other than the soviet model. Its given socialism a bad name when really its about social justice.
Venezuela isn't doing so well. It seems that outside of Europe socialism tends to devolve very quickly. And in those countries the popular support for socialism doesn't ever seem to translate into a more just society. Quite often the opposite. Why that should be is a matter of debate. At least in the case of the Nordic countries their generous social programs rely heavily on exporting natural resources like oil more than a dynamic economy and responsive markets.
