But you are badly mixing the two topics up, communism is political
while socialism is economical and you seem to have this driving point to say that socialism can not be achieved without a dictator which is completely false.
In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that,
while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.
While socialism as the state ownership of the means of production was discredited in the twentieth century, the egalitarianism of Rorty's utopia is maintained by fellow - feeling and a pervasive altruism.
In short, capitalism is realistic
while socialism is naïve.
Not exact matches
The survey found 58 % of millennials favor government - run
socialism (statistically 6 out of 10),
while a nearly identical number (64 %) don't want government interference in free markets.
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.
Alas, does
socialisms» decores embellish the brief momentums in timely progressives to be but a short
while away and then put upon the shelves to be but dusty gatherings!
If Romney just wants someone who will dutifully parrot the campaign - generated talking points about how Obama is for European
socialism and doesn't understand the business of business
while Romney is for the entrepreneurs of free market capitalism America, then Pawlenty is the guy.
One can not answer the question of what constitutes the just society by pointing to
socialism as such,
while among capitalist societies there are varying approximations of justice.
Social Christianity (which on the whole is simple
socialism), the Bekenntnis Kirche (which, once Hitlerism was defeated, merely aligned itself with anti-Hitlerism, thus with what might be called socio - communism), the ideas of Reinhold Niebuhr (which,
while solidly thought out, affected neither church nor society)-- all have failed.
Small government handouts to low income humans are called «
socialism»,
while large governmemt handouts to large wealthy companies and virtual monopolies are called capitalism».
Christianity,
socialism, and feminism are all alike in the sense that each has a logic of its own and attracts a wide following,
while also being opposed by many well - informed and intelligent persons.
Others revel in the mindfields or what can be better disseminated as being spiritual
socialisms while they are ever stayed put in their ownliness brain - yards of spiritualized individualisms!
While their accomplishments may be similar, however, the negative aspects of these two types of
socialism are drastically different.
While the nations on the Continent had their revolutions and, for good or evil, fought over ideas — whether it be the divine right of kings, liberty, equality, and fraternity, scientific
socialism, or racial superiority — we were, as Napoleon and others have said, a nation of shopkeepers.
And the very next week an editorial titled «Two Years of Mr. Hoover,»
while finding the president to be a man of conscience and courage, nonetheless took him to task for his «almost naïve confidence» in private and competitive enterprise and his «morbid fear of
socialism.»
While Churchill was a great orator, his words meant much back in those days but how soon does history tend to overlook such orations,,, For is it not a more wiser ambition to live freely among all religious persuasions and cling ever gently upon one's own independent literacies even though self - indulgence of the religious
socialisms may give rises toward individualized dementia?
Christmas is the time when conservative christians are least likely to realize that they are capitialists,
while the heaven they hope to go to is pure
socialism.
In terms of the former, liberal Protestants were concerned about unbridled consumerism and an emerging mass culture
while neo-evangelicals sought to buttress a world and life view that curbed
socialism and a confessionless moralism on the part of liberal Protestants.
He since then changed his mind, at least for a
while when he became convinced that the church must endorse
socialism as the only way out of the human miseries of Latin America.
anon, you do understand that
while the church is opposed to BC... they are not opposed to
socialism, welfare, universal healthcare, raising taxes on the rich and so on.
Nothing works in that joke of a country... communism failed, and so did
socialism...
while democracy was dead on arrival.
Besides having a strong appeal for many of Italy's educated youth, among whom Croce himself was numbered for a
while, Marxian
socialism early met success among the industrial workers, especially in the urban north.
While «religion serving
socialism» has been in the CPC lexicon for some time, direct intervention in the beliefs and practices of individual religions — including calls for the «Sinification» of Christian theology — have become more common under Xi.
Washington Gladden, that eminent representative man of nineteenthcentury Congregationalism,
while advocating a modified
socialism in political and economic affairs, as ardently advocated anarchy in ecclesiastical matters.
Tradition has it that Liverpool FC stands for
socialism, even
while many of the legends who bestrode the Anfield turf quietly voted Tory because they liked the idea of lower taxes.
Tradition has it that Liverpool FC stands for
socialism, even
while many of the legends who bestrode the Anfield turf quietly voted Tory because they -LRB-...)
It's entirely possible for a democracy to have other forms of economies - like pure
socialism, or even communism,
while maintaining democratic governments.
The Labour leader, never an EU enthusiast, is a Dr Dolittle pushmi - pullyu when John McDonnell's leading him into seeing Brexit as an opportunity for
socialism in one country
while another of Jezza's influential comrades, Diane Abbott, tugs him to sustain free movement.
However, I suspect it will be a
while before anyone takes another crack at implementing
socialism or communism.
[8] Blair put forward a case for defining
socialism in terms of a set of values which were constant,
while the policies needed to achieve them would have to account for changing society.
While its roots were firmly in the anti-war movement, it brought together leftist campaigners on issues ranging from the environment, equal rights and
socialism.
While the first task can to a degree be implemented under Capitalism, the second task requires transition to
Socialism as a prerequisite.
In a farewell open letter in the Guardian after 11 years at the Liberal Democrat helm, Mr Ashdown tells whoever wins the coming leadership contest that,
while «
socialism is dead and conservatism is dying», they will have to take risks to ensure the triumph of the new liberal, international agenda.
Ed M described
socialism as being a critique of capitalism in the opening week hustings,
while making it clear that was about a social democratic intervention http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/05/18/new-labour-is-dead-what-counts-now-is-next-labour-115875-22266479/
So we can now say that Fascism is commonly used more broadly to identify regimes, movements and ideologies
while Nazism is strongly tied to Hitler's National
Socialism.
On the theoretical side, Stalin claimed that Soviet Union was experiencing
socialism in one country
while Trotsky claimed it was, instead, degenerated workers state.
While a critic of 1843 saw «a club, a people's bank or a phalanstery» in «this dream of the gardens of Academe,» and noted the unusual amalgamation of Horace's Odes and Plato's dialogues with the steamship and the telegraph, the expendability of these contemporary elements is revealed when L'Artiste announces that Papety, on the basis of critical advice, has replaced his steamboat with a Greek temple, «which,» remarks the anonymous critic, with unconscious irony, «is perhaps more ordinary but also more severe than
socialism in painting.»
While his youthful dreams of revolutionary
Socialism were disappointed, he never abandoned his belief that art has a mission to change the world for the better.
A haven for
socialism — and now supermodels — post-Soviet Cuba has entered what Fidel Castro calls a periodo especial, a formative era challenging the nation's way of life
while buoying its...
So, «
socialism» is often merely useless,
while dogmatic literal interpretation of religious text is a real impediment and thus worse than
socialism.
While for those who do believe that individual liberty and the rule of law even when it does interfere with the wheels of progress,
Socialism is hopelessly wicked.
Of course there is a continuum with Pol Pot type communistic regimes at one end and socialist states like the Scandinavian ones on the left side of the continuum and the US on the right; and
while I don't want to get into the relative virtues of
socialism, or not, from the viewpoint of green ideology, individual rights such as property rights and equality before the law are anthema to them as I note here:
Less state - sponsored corporate
socialism, less hand - holding of companies who in their dotage crush the opportunities of new enterprise
while strangling the democratic decision power of their customers and suppliers, no tolerance of anti-American behavior by business.
In fact, it means taking on
Socialism while we are at it.
In Canada, today's political and business leaders want to privatize profits and socialize losses, all the
while chanting the shortsighted mantra that civic spending is, if not evil, some perverted form of
socialism.