I finally broke with DSOC, however, after visiting and studying in
socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Asia.
The capitalist system is not perfect — but you have to admit that more different peoples see hope in the US than
the socialist countries of Europe or Latin America...
Not exact matches
The leader
of Germany's
socialist party is under heavy pressure to fix the
country's political stalemate.
Meanwhile, Portugal's Communist Party has support
of as much as 10 percent
of the electorate — and could help deny that
country's
Socialist Party a shot at taking back power from the governing center - right coalition in an Oct. 4 election.
A member
of the German liberal party blamed the
country's
Socialist Party for the recent collapse in coalition talks to form a new government.
The leader
of Germany's
socialist party is under heavy pressure to fix the
country's political stalemate — despite the experienced lawmaker not being involved in recent coalition talks.
Last month's G20 meetings in Paris brought into tighter focus the ambitions
of International Monetary Fund chief, and failed 2006 French presidential candidate, Dominique Strauss - Kahn to run in that
country's next election as the
Socialist party candidate.
Maduro's approval ratings have tumbled amid the crisis to 28 percent, near the lowest in 16 years
of socialist rule, and while there's no sign the sometimes violent street protests that overwhelmed the
country a year ago will return anytime soon, polls indicate that the opposition will coast to victory in legislative elections expected to take place by year end.
This was widely interpreted as a rebuke to France's newly minted
Socialist president, who is making good on campaign promises to tax the hell out
of high - income citizens as a means
of bridging the
country's yawning deficits.
Since 2013, when Nicolás Maduro took power after the death
of Hugo Chávez, the
socialist country has struggled with skyrocketing inflation, food and medicine shortages, a shrinking economy and rising violence and corruption.
Mainly the
socialist social programs
of the U.S. will (more) rapidly bankrupt the
country if the U.S. government can't continue to print dollars to inflate it's way out
of it's incredible mountain
of debt.
Venezuela, the most hardline
socialist country in the American continent, is in a steep crisis in recent years ever since oil prices fell below the $ 100 area in 2014 down to a third
of the price in early 2016.
In August 1972, more than a year before the military coup, the CIA funded a 300 - page economic blueprint which it supplied to the
country's military and some
of the most ambitious business families in an effort to hasten the overthrow
of Salvador Allende's
socialist government, which had been elected by a small plurality in 1970.
At the 19th Communist Party National Congress held in October, President Xi unveiled a bold, long - term vision to transform China into a «great modern
socialist country» — a global leader in innovation and trade that boasts sustainable growth, a cleaner environment and reduced inequality — by the 100th anniversary
of the People's Republic in 2049.
The OPEC member's
socialist leader wants to restructure the ailing
country's foreign debt, putting an alleged drug trafficker in charge
of working out how.
Since coming to power at the end
of 2015, a minority
socialist Portuguese government has overcome initial skepticism among market participants and successfully introduced measures to reduce its budget deficit and reform the
country's banking system, providing greater stability for investors.
Critics
of President Nicolas Maduro's
socialist government point to the administration's own missteps for the
country's spiraling quadruple digit inflation, making common goods too expensive for most residents.
That's what this
country was founded on, not your wacko idea
of a
socialist state.
Laws and
socialist policies passed in the interests
of the Christian Faith have largely ruined this
country.
It is perhaps no accident that the Left has not yet produced an analysis
of the pattern
of manipulation in
countries with
socialist régimes.
As much as any Israeli novelist
of his generation, Amos Oz is responsible for liberating his
country's fiction from the heavy hand
of politically driven «
socialist realism.»
To cause contention & distract us from spending time with what is really important to the WORLD right now, because If America falls in the hands
of the progressives, & be com a
socialist country, we are all in trouble!
The Church has always felt that economic injustice occurrs due to the lack
of free markets worldwide as the world's most poor live in
socialist countries.
Full
socialist countries match the despotic feudalisms in tyranny while surpassing them in social services but also in the thoroughness
of their suppression.
In fact, Argentina was a battlefield between leftist
socialists and right - wing security forces during much
of Francis» early career in the
country, where he was a Jesuit priest and later archbishop
of Buenos Aires.
The liberation viewpoint stressed pulling control over the natural resources
of poor
countries out from under Western power so that the developmental process could continue under autonomous,
socialist political systems.
And they do permit many
of the efficiencies
of free enterprise in large sectors
of the economy and so tend to have a better standard
of living than comparable
countries which are full
socialist.
Continuing commitment to industrial growth in both capitalist and
socialist countries is pushing us toward a situation where the nightmare I have pictured could become the only possibility
of survival.
Titled «The Basic Viewpoint and Policy on the Religious Question During Our
Country's
Socialist Period,» it reasserts the standard Marxist view
of religion as a response to the human fear
of the terrors
of nature — a response manipulated by class societies to rationalize the power
of the upper classes and justify the plight
of workers and the poor.
How can a
socialist get that close to the center
of capitalist power in this
country without losing his soul?
Socialist morality as it is taught by the communications systems in the socialist countries, of course, has the power - ordering consequences of the technology In general, of the technology of communications, and of the mass media technology in pa
Socialist morality as it is taught by the communications systems in the
socialist countries, of course, has the power - ordering consequences of the technology In general, of the technology of communications, and of the mass media technology in pa
socialist countries,
of course, has the power - ordering consequences
of the technology In general,
of the technology
of communications, and
of the mass media technology in particular.
America could still be the greatest
country in the world but it will not happen by men or any
socialist regime, it will be a act
of God.
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.
I am working on a plan like this in Canada (as there are far less people and it is easier to get through) because being from a
socialist country it is vital for people to feel the money they pay in taxes is being spent on things that benifit them, even if it is only a percentage
of the overall amount.
What confronts us is not a series
of separate crises in industry, economics and ecology but a single basic defect that lies deep in the design
of modern society, be it in capitalist,
socialist, developing or developed
countries.
After the disintegration
of socialist regimes in 1989, this ideology dominates the world and the Third World
countries have fallen in line.
So they want to leave because
of a «
socialist» healthcare system, and go to a
country that has an even MORE «
socialist» healthcare system.
In this, it mirrors the extreme right, which equates Barack Obama with Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers, and Jeremiah Wright, showing (in the minds
of those who traffic in this sort
of thing) that our President is an anti-American
socialist out to destroy the
country.
The experience
of the
socialist countries, he acknowledged, makes clear that the marketplace distributes goods better than «the queues
of a planned economy.»
But that case becomes easier to make on simply empirical grounds as data about the ecologically devastating conditions in both traditional, pretechnological societies and in the antitheological
socialist societies
of the former Eastern European
countries becomes available.
America has nothing remotely comparable to the «
socialist»
countries of Western Europe.
Other
countries can offer extended maternity leave with pay because
of the
socialist type government welfare systems (provided by very high taxes).
An important point to note is that the concept
of a
country is fairly new; I have read, and agree, that modern states did not become such an important unit
of human organization until the Great Depression in the 1930s; at that time the problems facing them - broken economies and
socialist movements - the
country level government was the only organization existing that could solve these problems while the existing power structure stayed in power.
These days I am amused rather than offended when I come under attack from some Conservative backwoodsmen — one recently identified me as a member
of the
Socialist Workers Party: that, for advocating policies which would be considered mainstream in successful Scandinavian countries or Germany or France or even, in that socialist paradise, the Unite
Socialist Workers Party: that, for advocating policies which would be considered mainstream in successful Scandinavian
countries or Germany or France or even, in that
socialist paradise, the Unite
socialist paradise, the United States.
From my perspective I was born in a western EU
country where the parties that came after the fall
of the dictatorship (and that still remain the biggest parties to this day) are named Social - Democracy Party, and
Socialist Party.
To understand the nature
of the social order and state power in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain (and their opposition to it), British
socialists looked to the
country's past and its evolution to the current stage.
Interestingly, this protest movement does not seem to be drawing inspiration from a purely left - wing or right - wing agenda; although it is the «founding fathers»
of the Israeli right that are frequently quoted and praised (perhaps nostalgically) rather than the
country's
socialist founders.
Chile is example
of Socialists coming to power peacefully is a bourgeois undemocratic
country due to «system fault» at preventing them from doing so.
What's more, in comparison to previous governments, it suffers from a substantial problem in the shape
of Plahotniuc, who suffers from the lowest levels
of popular support
of any political figure in the
country, but nevertheless maintains large levels
of influence in the media and has a close relationship with both decision - makers in Bucharest and the
Socialist Party in Chisinau.
The Social Democrats may be a part
of the European
Socialists, but on identity politics (especially on nationalism, LGBT, migration and church - state relations) they have been solidly conservatism, catering to the
country's prevailing authoritarian social values.