Sentences with phrase «socialism works»

The National Republican Congressional Committee sent an unusual gift to a Democrat running for Congress in Pennsylvania: a book titled Why Socialism Works.

And socialism works quite well in some European countries, so does universal healthcare.

the largest flaw in socialism is their constant lying to themselves that Socialism works and therefor there is never a self examination to try and determine why their policies are consistently, failing.

Back then, communism MEANT something — even most liberals saw great evil in Stalin's regime, and scaring voters with the specter of socialism worked because there really WAS a socialist model attempting to compete with capitalism.

Not exact matches

Price has been pilloried on Fox News and trashed by the multimillionaire Limbaugh («I hope this company is a case study in MBA programs on how socialism does not work, because it's gonna fail»).

«Actually Marx already predicted that there could be a kind of socialism which combined socialist principles with the achievements of Western capitalist civilizations but he didn't say how this kind of socialism would work since there was no evidence available during his lifetime,» Su Wei, a professor at a party school for ideological training in Chongqing, in southwestern China, told the Global Times.

INcreasing your workers wages because you are prospering and their hard work helped get you there is not socialism, it's just good Capitalism.

People seem to miss this is really just another piece of socialism, where working Americans pay for free birth control for 20 something's while the latter go buy the latest iPhone and drink at bars.

Socialism seems to be working very well for the corporate, banking and government elite.

The only way socialism can possibly work at all, we are told, is by being authoritarian.

Under socialism no one goes hungry; everyone who is able works; those who work receive benefits commensurate with their social contribution; and there are not the radical disparities in wealth and opportunities characteristic of capitalism.

And to the one who wrote socialism is working in Europe: it is now 4 years later and Europe is in shambles.

Socialism has never worked, except for those at the very top.

Therefore, if we as Christians are going to work to improve the systems in which people live — as indeed we must — then we need to avoid promoting or condemning capitalism or socialism as such.

Nevertheless, in spite of the great advances made by workers and in spite of having seen that socialism can not offer them a worker's utopia or even an alternative to working for someone else, we must take note that there are still a couple of very troubling aspects to the division between owners and workers.

In other words, they saw clearly that along with the struggle for justice for the industrial working class, we must simultaneously go forward with the liberation of dalits, tribals and women if we have to realize an Indian socialism.

The old socialism considered the industrial working class as the bearers of the new society.

Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev has followed his earlier initiatives in reducing nuclear weapons by making two announcements of momentous import: economically, socialism does not work, and politically, democracy is the road to the future.

These pacts were a defence strategy against the danger posed by the threat of a more aggressive socialism created by the working classes.

Many countries, Britain, Canada, France, and much of Europe are democratic governments that have kept elements of socialism that work very well.

The four concepts were praxis, the poor, oppression, and socialism, and the Latin American proposition was that through the practical work of building socialist societies, the poor of the third world would throw off the oppression they suffered at the hands of the first world, especially the United States.

I suggest that Japan and Cuba provide far more positive models of capitalism and socialism at work.

Nothing works in that joke of a country... communism failed, and so did socialism... while democracy was dead on arrival.

The quote» u do nt work u do nt eat» was said to people who were praticing a form of christian socialism — the statement was not an endorsement of capitalism

The question remains, however, whether any form of socialism can be made to work economically.

capitalism works with an underlying layer of socialism.

By arguing that socialism doesn't work, free - market ideologues may enforce the misguided notion that no publicly owned and operated venture can possibly succeed.

On reading and reflecting on this work, I am reminded of why it is that I remained in dialogue with the Boston - area branch of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), founded by Harrington and led locally by John Cort (author of Christian Socialism) for more than a decade.

Conceivably, the only socialism that could work would be that which develops in a society deeply bonded by religious values.

We don't want socialism or egalitarianism in our government, but we're curious about how it works so well let our sports leagues operate that way because ultimately it's only sports and doesn't really matter.

Bottom line: no, there were no working examples of socialism reformed in the lines of Dubcek's proposals.

@JustinBeagley - this seems like it's entirely written from the socialism = communism = evil and will never work = yay captialism viewpoint, isn't it?

My decision to vote «Leave» is based on my belief in democracy, socialism, and a political economy which protects the living standards of the British working class.

Hyndman, in the Historical Basis of Socialism in England (1883), argued that «in looking back through the history of our country, there is one period when by common consent men and women who worked with their hands were better off than at any time before or since».

Instead he wrote, in 1946 in «Why I Write» that «Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it», which was the argument for justice and liberty.

These are fine intellectual pedigrees, but they are not the full story of socialism in Britain by any means, especially among working - class Labour voters.

Fraga surrounded himself with a younger team and focused his speeches on the risks of socialism, such as the creation of dependent societies, which, through their support of welfare and subsidies, weakened values such as work, responsibility and merit; in turn, societies would become less competitive and free.

That's why Progressivism / socialism will never work no matter how many times it's tried.

So much for socialism (which you acknoweledge being on the left) having anything to do with LESS top down power at work.

21) A rare personal passage describes Corbyn getting his socialism from his parents and working as a teacher and trade union organiser.

Laski's main political role came as a writer and lecturer on every topic of concern to the left, including socialism, capitalism, working conditions, eugenics, woman suffrage, imperialism, decolonisation, disarmament, human rights, worker education, and Zionism.

But all these schemes prove is make a lesson from the past one for the present, too — that socialism doesn't work, and predistribution won't, either.

Democratic socialism means that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.

If the 13 million votes received by self - styled «democratic socialist» Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries accomplished nothing else positive, it put the questions of socialism and independent working - class politics up for public discussion.

More importantly, by entering the Democratic Party, Sanders broke with the socialist principle of independent working - class political action.1 He became the «sheepdog» herding progressives, who had the option of voting for the Green ticket of Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka in the general election, back into a party run by the billionaire class he professes to oppose.2 Nevertheless, the broad liberal to radical American left is now discussing what socialism is and debating whether the Left should be inside or outside the Democratic Party — or both inside and outside.

Blue Labour launched as a «deeply conservative socialism that places family, faith and work at the heart of a new politics»

National Socialism was staunchly against capitalism, and whilst it didn't oppose privately owned companies (unlike its «cousin» / rival, communism), it did dictate that everyone (every German in «nazism's» case) was equal and was required to help one another and work for their nation and fellow Germans rather than personal gain.

Marxism is the body of work by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels and covers subjects like economics, Socialism / Communism.

Marxism - Leninism is an oxymoron, no one can deny Lenin didn't understand Marxism but he distorted Marx whenever it suited his own ends, for instance Socialism became the interim stage to Communism for Lenin only when he realised Communism was an impossibility in Russia, infact Lenin admitted that's all that had been achieved in Russia was state Capitalism (1918) and Lenin himself thought Socialism / Communism wouldn't be established by the working classes for 500 years if left to their own devices.Sadly Socialism and the Russian workers have paid a heavy price for Lenin's distortions of Marxism.

If that is the sum of our electoral «pragmatism,» however, then we may as well abandon any practical working goal of democratic socialism.