People decry the Evils of Socialism..Well i say why not try to look at it subjectively.Instead most on the Right side say Socialism will destroy a country.Our own Republican party even convened a special session to vote on calling the Democrats..the Democratic Socialist party.. Well here is a major argument for why Socialism works, and can actually be a good thing
Think about this.. Then give me your arguments for or against
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What they have in Europe is not true socialism, it's more social democracy. In a true socialist system, at least in theory (it's never really been tried anywhere for any appreciable length of time, and its important to remember that) there is no capitalist class and no ownership or property rights on any kind, at least not on a large, private scale. For that matter, there are no codified guarantees of any even limited property rights.
In theory, the working class controls the means of production and local issues are decided at the local level by committee (called "soviets" in the old Soviet Union, for example).
What the Europeans have done is taken the most attractive elements of socialism and packaged it inside a democratic and yet capitalist framework. Thus, there is still private property rights, and a capitalist class that not only owns and controls the means of production, but is subsidized by the various governments to a great extent (some more than others).
As a result you have universal health care and generous wages and benefits, including vacation and retirement, etc., with an inordinately high tax burden. The question is, will it be sustainable over the long-term?
I seriously doubt it, but whether it is or is not, the point remains, it is not true socialism, it just has elements of it.
In cases where it has been tried, it usually devolves in short order to a jack-boot type of usually international fascism. More isolated nations such as Cuba and Korea become real basket cases. In other less extreme examples, it just devolves into a single-party system that usually leads to a situation that quickly becomes dictatorial in nature. I have yet to know of a truly socialist state with civil liberties, the rule of law, a free press and opposition parties. That's because truly socialist states never stay truly socialist for long. There is nothing to put on the brakes leading to excess, corruption, cronyism, etc.
Socialism advocates democracy, but the soil of socialism does not contain the nutrients that allow the flower of democracy to bloom.
The workers never control the means of production in reality, that is usually left to the purview of the states or some political apparatus. Wihout capitalist input, the state is the only mechanism remaining to invest and maintain industrial output and production, or any kind of large scale business.
This is certainly understandable. If there was a capitalist class, who would want to invest in a socialist economy when they know their holdings could be expropriated at any time, for any reason, at a "fair-market price" determined exclusively by the expropriators?
Plus, what good does it do to even allow opposition parties (something by the way that has also never happened to my knowledge) when they are obliged to abide by the determined tenets and dogmas of the socialist system?
It is a recipe for corruption and dictatorship, if not when first implemented, then certainly to come in fairly quick order, as there is no mechanism in place to prevent it. That's the whole problem.
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