by ajaica May 10, 2015
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Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
What Socialism would do.
Steal a fish from one guy and give it to another--and keep doing that on a daily basis--and make the first guy pissed off, and make the second guy lazy and dependent on the government. Then tell the second guy that the first guy is greedy for wanting to keep the fish he caught. Then the second guy will cheer for more stealing of fish. Then the government can prohibit anyone from fishing without getting permission from them. Then expand the racket, stealing fish from more people and buying the loyalty of others and get the recipients of the stolen fish to act as their hired thugs.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
What Socialism would do.
Steal a fish from one guy and give it to another--and keep doing that on a daily basis--and make the first guy pissed off, and make the second guy lazy and dependent on the government. Then tell the second guy that the first guy is greedy for wanting to keep the fish he caught. Then the second guy will cheer for more stealing of fish. Then the government can prohibit anyone from fishing without getting permission from them. Then expand the racket, stealing fish from more people and buying the loyalty of others and get the recipients of the stolen fish to act as their hired thugs.
by thafer January 13, 2019
Get the Socialism mug.An economic system that doesn't work, will never work and leaves pretty much everyone equally miserable. It's supposed to be a collective ownership of the means of production but this really is a ploy to take all your property because they feel entitled to stuff they don't have. Socialists will try to convince you it works and it hasn't been really tried yet but they're lying and their ideology has nothing to show for it.
Socialist: Socialism works. It's just never been properly implemented yet.
Normal Person: Really? Doesn't it bother you that it's never worked in Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, East Germany, India, Ghana, Ivory Coast, North Korea, China, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Mynanmar, Thailand, South Korea, Chile, etc.,?
Socialist: Umm.....
Normal Person: Really? Doesn't it bother you that it's never worked in Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, East Germany, India, Ghana, Ivory Coast, North Korea, China, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Mynanmar, Thailand, South Korea, Chile, etc.,?
Socialist: Umm.....
by LoganRothbard June 23, 2018
Get the socialism mug.A type of government that is between Capitalism and Communism. Socialism is a watered down form of communism and anyone who believes in it are communist who hate freedom.
by Chuckiewhite82 December 5, 2017
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Libertarian - values personal freedom, private property, and minimal inference of the state. Citizens are independent and self reliant.
Socialism - No private property, property is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy.. Maximize the size of government and government intervention in the lives of its citizens. Citizens are dependant upon the State.
Libertarian - values personal freedom, private property, and minimal inference of the state. Citizens are independent and self reliant.
Socialism - No private property, property is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy.. Maximize the size of government and government intervention in the lives of its citizens. Citizens are dependant upon the State.
You can not be dependant and still be free.
Government is the only organization specifically granted the power to use force to achieve its goals.
Government is the only organization specifically granted the power to use force to achieve its goals.
by User ID Withheld March 26, 2005
Get the libertarian socialism mug.National Socialism is more properly called ethnocentric fascism.
Otherwise known as Nazism: The concept of Nationalism taken to its extreme in an era when Communism and Socialism were gaining broad support among the poor. In the nation of Germany, National Socialists blamed the tiny minority of non-natives for all crises, depressions and military losses. They used the "Socialist" moniker to draw in popular support.
National Socialism, by that name, no longer exists.
The National Socialist German Workers party promoted itself using "The Big Lie": a blatant lie about its opponents, told often enough, assumed to be true. The Big Lie (the ideology itself) was promoted by the party's propaganda wing. By assuming control of the church, scouting organizations, schools and universities, the Nazi party was able to gain broad support. No one wanted to be unpatriotic after WWI, and thus criticism was easily stifled.
Protests were astroturfed to build hatred against Jews, Socialists, Communists, gays, and intellectuals. The Center Party liked the Nazis' anti-Communist, free market beliefs and allowed its rise to power in what was probably the worst political underestimation in history. The Nazis then banned the Center Party.
National Socialism is neither: It seeks to divide people up to more easily conquer them according to their hatreds. It also goes directly against the ideology of Socialism because it teaches people to identify with their race, not their social class.
Otherwise known as Nazism: The concept of Nationalism taken to its extreme in an era when Communism and Socialism were gaining broad support among the poor. In the nation of Germany, National Socialists blamed the tiny minority of non-natives for all crises, depressions and military losses. They used the "Socialist" moniker to draw in popular support.
National Socialism, by that name, no longer exists.
The National Socialist German Workers party promoted itself using "The Big Lie": a blatant lie about its opponents, told often enough, assumed to be true. The Big Lie (the ideology itself) was promoted by the party's propaganda wing. By assuming control of the church, scouting organizations, schools and universities, the Nazi party was able to gain broad support. No one wanted to be unpatriotic after WWI, and thus criticism was easily stifled.
Protests were astroturfed to build hatred against Jews, Socialists, Communists, gays, and intellectuals. The Center Party liked the Nazis' anti-Communist, free market beliefs and allowed its rise to power in what was probably the worst political underestimation in history. The Nazis then banned the Center Party.
National Socialism is neither: It seeks to divide people up to more easily conquer them according to their hatreds. It also goes directly against the ideology of Socialism because it teaches people to identify with their race, not their social class.
National Socialism was an ideology of the 1930s and would no longer gain support by that name because nationalism and Socialism are not popular anymore.
In a country like the United States, for example, a future takeover by ethnocentric fascists with brutal ends would, once again, assume a false identity - probably something like "Pro-American Christian Party" - then proceed to wrap itself in the American flag (or a similar, less well known patriotic symbol, like the Gadsden flag), go to church to get schooled on religion (and to disguise any anti-Christian motivations, such as Ayn Rand's Objectivism), pretend not to be racist, then promote itself as the only hope for the future.
Oh, wait ... that already happened. Shit!
In a country like the United States, for example, a future takeover by ethnocentric fascists with brutal ends would, once again, assume a false identity - probably something like "Pro-American Christian Party" - then proceed to wrap itself in the American flag (or a similar, less well known patriotic symbol, like the Gadsden flag), go to church to get schooled on religion (and to disguise any anti-Christian motivations, such as Ayn Rand's Objectivism), pretend not to be racist, then promote itself as the only hope for the future.
Oh, wait ... that already happened. Shit!
by soliebendielerche July 9, 2011
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