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Started by pr126, July 31, 2017, 01:57:31 AM

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Baruch

Quote from: pr126 on July 31, 2017, 07:16:49 AM
So socialism if done correctly is just fine.

But so far nobody worked it out how to do it “correctly”.

Socialism is communism lite. That didn’t work either. The USSR proved that.
It seems that capitalism, while not perfect, has the least of corpses littering the streets.

Communism doesn’t work.
Imagine that a surgeon earns the same as the janitor.
Where is the incentive to become a surgeon?

The idea comes from the French Revolution.  Some want Robespierre working overtime, forever.  Of course that is no way to run any society.  This is simply revenge fantasy.  I wish all our moderate socialist friends, would move to Cuba.  Get to work, harvesting sugar cane.  Of they can alway do a Lee Harvey Oswald ;-(
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Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
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Don't do that.

Baruch

Quote from: SoldierofFortune on July 31, 2017, 07:19:37 AM
There is something like ''Universal Basic Income''
It is being applied in Finlandia if i didnt hear wrong.
But this is not socialism of course.

Welfare isn't socialism either.  Everybody seems to want it, but nobody can define it.  Lenin was quite clear that the people cannot be allowed to lead, only the revolutionary cadre can do that ;-)

If there is a universal basic income, then all reproduction not licensed by the State has to stop ... you can't create indebtedness of society, without permission.
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Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
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Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Baruch

Quote from: Shiranu on July 31, 2017, 11:43:22 AM
So has capitalism. Should we abandon it as well?

Yes .. nothing works with ape men.  Back to the trees, and don't touch my banana.  Actual communism isn't high tech .. there is only primitive communism.  And the Apaches will kill you if you trespass.
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Atheon

And meanwhile, in Denmark and Finland, socialism is hopping along just dandily.
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AllPurposeAtheist

Quote from: pr126 on July 31, 2017, 07:56:01 AM
Communism has produced about a hundred million corpses world wide.
Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, North Korea, Khmer Rouge, etc. Etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_regimes

I have seen some of the corpses in Budapest 1956 uprising.

You conveniently forget just how many corpses "capitalism"  has produced. Just because the owners of our nations don't want us to know how many people have died to protect their wealth doesn't mean they're any less dead.
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Shiranu

The irony of a capitalist talking about how evil socialism is never ceases to amaze me. The amount of ignorance and historical "see-no-evil" eye covering you have to do is staggering.

Latin America has been ravaged by capitalism; first by the colonial era, then by corporations. We have overthrown democratically elected leader after democratically elected leader to protect American business interests, leading to numerous civil wars and grinding poverty. Mexico spent centuries of having it's government in turmoil to protect the Spanish hacendado interest. We embargoed Cuba and destroyed their economy because they were socialist and we weren't. We put millions of people into sweat shops, including child labour, in places like El Salvador, Honduras, and across the sea Bangladesh. We put Americans out of work so we can make pants for dirt cheap elsewhere and pocket the savings, because capitalism values that over the well-being of human beings.

We overthrew Iran's democratic, secular government to protect English oil interests. There is this country, you may have heard of it, called India... it was once part of your little Union in case you have forgotten... that saw millions upon millions of people negatively impacted by capitalism run amok. We took millions of people as slaves all in the name of capitalism. We put our young tens of thousands of dollars into debt for their education because capitalism. We put our sick and elderly in debt in the name of turning a dollar for capitalism.

I'm sorry, but this list could literally go on for several more hours of why capitalism is just as evil, if not more evil, than socialism. The short of it, tl;dr version... you're still full of shit.


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Baruch

#21
Quote from: Atheon on July 31, 2017, 01:57:26 PM
And meanwhile, in Denmark and Finland, socialism is hopping along just dandily.

Move there, before a billion Muslims do ;-)  Maybe you can sing "Don't cry for me, Argentina".  Americans aren't any good at geography anyway ;-(
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Baruch

Quote from: AllPurposeAtheist on July 31, 2017, 02:44:41 PM
You conveniently forget just how many corpses "capitalism"  has produced. Just because the owners of our nations don't want us to know how many people have died to protect their wealth doesn't mean they're any less dead.

You will die either way.  Dead is dead, and all die.  And yes, if you aren't a cute towel boy or a cuter French maid, your days are numbered.  If you like how rich people hire good help, just look at the Trump administration ;-)
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Jason78

I've always found it odd that people are happy to accept a socialised military, yet think it's a bad system for everything else.
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tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. -Plato

Baruch

Quote from: Jason78 on August 01, 2017, 01:02:33 PM
I've always found it odd that people are happy to accept a socialised military, yet think it's a bad system for everything else.

If you are young and fit, join up .. but what people want is socialism without discipline.  They want free shit and cuter babes.  They can go ask their parents for that, if they are ever let out of the basement.

The military isn't perfect, but I think it is a lot better than the Intel guys (no, not the chip maker, unless you mean the RFID chip they want to stick us all with).
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Shiranu

#25
Quote from: Jason78 on August 01, 2017, 01:02:33 PM
I've always found it odd that people are happy to accept a socialised military, yet think it's a bad system for everything else.

Almost all the services we like from the government are socialism/socialistic, and almost all the things we hate aren't.

Odd coincidence, I'm sure. Also odd how those things that we like help us, and those that don't tend to lean closer to capitalism... which I think goes to the root of capitalism... sell people shit they don't need, and probably don't actually really want, for as much as you can bleed them for.
"A little science distances you from God, but a lot of science brings you nearer to Him." - Louis Pasteur

Gawdzilla Sama

OP, you're avatar is most appropriate.
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Gawdzilla Sama

Quote from: pr126 on July 31, 2017, 07:56:01 AM
Communism has produced about a hundred million corpses world wide.
Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, North Korea, Khmer Rouge, etc. Etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_regimes

I have seen some of the corpses in Budapest 1956 uprising.

Yeah, in picture books.
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers

pr126


Shiranu

#29
Quote from: pr126 on August 02, 2017, 12:04:40 AM
No, I have been there at the time.

I'll give pr this one; from what I know of him, he is an ex-Soviet bloc who moved to England, and hated the world ever since.

Of course, like most ex-Soviet bloc/Cubans, he conflates socialism with communism, without realising the country that was "great" was heavily socialistic. That is understandable though, and one that doesn't really get under my skin. Wrong, but not annoying.

Now that I think about it, it also explains why he is so anti-education.


Either way though, my point here and else where stands; it is a world view dominated by fear and hatred and not rational thought, and it's a shame that there was a society that created it in him and it's a shame that there is a society that exploits it for their own advantage today. Rather than attacking people like him, what we really need to attack are the institutions that further the myths that he was sold. 
"A little science distances you from God, but a lot of science brings you nearer to Him." - Louis Pasteur