Quote from: designerusa on August 29, 2016, 04:36:18 PM

Quote from: Tyrantt on August 11, 2016, 12:42:35 PM

Why is the left pushing the idea of socialism/comunism so much even tho it showed that it doesn't work many times in the past?

theoretically , socialism and comunism are the best regime on earth. people are economically equal in those regimes but somethings arent like that in reality. socialist and communist regimes can easily evolve to dictatorship some time after. for that reason, these regimes dont work on earth.

Any regime can turn into a dictatorship (most already have)... that has nothing to do with the style of government or economic policies, and everything to do with "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely"

You cannot have any form of government without people in charge... those people always end up corrupted... faster in a Capitalism environment than a Socialist one...

I'll even give an example... USA (capitalist) vs Iceland (socialist)...

The bankers in both countries destroyed the economy... in USA, we gave the bankers a get out of jail free card and $50,000,000,000 bailout...

In Iceland... they threw the bankers in prison for causing the disaster
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-03-31/welcome-to-iceland-where-bad-bankers-go-to-prison

That's the difference between socialism and capitalism... the corruption is much worse in capitalism...

Socialism = government by the people, for the people
Capitalism = government for sale to the highest bidder (corporations and wealthy donors)