(September 8, 2009 at 5:59 pm)Meatball Wrote: Socialism, in the way that Marx describes, is a pipe dream. It's not feasible.
I appreciate that things like Marxism exist because they provide an extreme that gravitates popular thought. We can look at pure socialism and see aspects that we can apply in practical ways to our own society. Things like employment insurance, public roads, public healthcare all take great aspects of socialism and apply to our system. Things like across-the-board equal wealth and price fixing don't work so well.
I agree with Adrian's suggestion that competition is part of the human spirit. I'll extrapolate from that and assert that socialism stifles and oppresses that critical human trait.
You say Marxism is " Extreme". Do you not find a small minority owning the combined wealth of the planet ( whilst millions starve ) " extreme "?
Adrian is a capitalist who chooses to label himself " left " but also is a " libertarian " which is capitalist. So, be careful is my caveat.
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
