Read on Twitter
Every arrogant rose brigade comes into my mentions - demanding I define socialism. Because their premise is I must not understand it and that is why I hate it- sigh
That take that to know socialism is to like it seems more naive given there are few working models.
That take that to know socialism is to like it seems more naive given there are few working models.
Scandinavian governments are not working models of socialism. I don’t know how many times they have to say it - addressing the American left like a rapper drops a diss track https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/10/31/9650030/denmark-prime-minister-bernie-sanders
In fact, looking at Europe at all for examples of socialism is usually a bad idea because they seem to go through phases of different economic theories where a period of socialist type reforms are followed by a backlash to more conservatives governments undoing the reforms
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2018-12-30/european-socialism-nearly-died-in-2018-but-the-left-can-recover
Here is a Bloomberg article dated 2018 that writes its near obituary foretelling a possible rise. But spoiler alert - it didn’t.
Here is a Bloomberg article dated 2018 that writes its near obituary foretelling a possible rise. But spoiler alert - it didn’t.
People are drawn to the idea of socialism in theory because it seems like it actually does temper the market driven cruelty of capitalism but is not as extreme authoritarianism as communism. Also communism outlaws private property
But what works in theory about curbing the excesses of Capitalism but not quite being anti private property
has failed in practice because humans are still humans.
Ppl w/ private property does things to avoid state seizure https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/jonhartley/2015/02/02/frances-75-supertax-failure-a-blow-to-pikettys-economics/amp/
has failed in practice because humans are still humans.
Ppl w/ private property does things to avoid state seizure https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/jonhartley/2015/02/02/frances-75-supertax-failure-a-blow-to-pikettys-economics/amp/
And then when states have few resources that is truly when the inequities come out. https://www.google.com/amp/www.inquiriesjournal.com/amp/1722/old-history-in-the-new-cuba-exploring-the-legacy-of-race-and-economic-inequality-on-the-island-today
The answer to Leftist is MMT despite the fact that many very poor countries print their own currency
Why don’t they hit the printing presses until they out of poverty https://twitter.com/proudsocialist/status/1336721152421457921
Why don’t they hit the printing presses until they out of poverty https://twitter.com/proudsocialist/status/1336721152421457921
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntharvey/2019/03/05/mmt-sense-or-nonsense/?sh=693560a05852
Your country has to buy things from other countries. Printing more money devalues your currency in a world where you have to purchase from the world.
The dollar to Euro is 1 Euro equals
1.21 United States Dollar. In a world where you just print
Your country has to buy things from other countries. Printing more money devalues your currency in a world where you have to purchase from the world.
The dollar to Euro is 1 Euro equals
1.21 United States Dollar. In a world where you just print
There is no getting around it - to run a government is to need revenue. And countries can only tinker with the private enterprise but so much before those who have it - leave in Pikkety failed experiments w/ the supertax they leave to protect their Holdings
Although you can decry the greedy rich moving around to catch the best conditions for them.
What’s more money 30% of 100 million
Or 0% of 70% o 100 millions
These taxes Are avoided more than
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/film/2012/dec/22/gerard-depardieu-tax-move-divides-france
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.q13fox.com/news/moving-to-texas-why-teslas-elon-musk-oracle-and-hewlett-packard-enterprises-are-leaving-california.amp
What’s more money 30% of 100 million
Or 0% of 70% o 100 millions
These taxes Are avoided more than
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/film/2012/dec/22/gerard-depardieu-tax-move-divides-france
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.q13fox.com/news/moving-to-texas-why-teslas-elon-musk-oracle-and-hewlett-packard-enterprises-are-leaving-california.amp
There are other problems with socialism in practice and far left populism that even researcher from the left has identified- it tends to turn out more authoritarian in the long run
Studies have shown a direct link https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/bonikowski/files/bonikowski_et_al._-_populism_and_nationalism_in_a_comparative_perspective.pdf
Studies have shown a direct link https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/bonikowski/files/bonikowski_et_al._-_populism_and_nationalism_in_a_comparative_perspective.pdf
So while everyone comes in and thinks socialism is sexy and has a natural attractive - we have had decades of it.
