In a socialist system the gov’t takes over the means of production.
Study economic and political theory.
What we’re doing is economic fascism, not socialism as only the allocation of what is produced is being ordered by the gov’t.
3M has been ordered to first fill orders of those critical supplies for US customers then those of our allies based on which is in most need.
The “workforce” hasn’t been nationalized either, we are under a phased quarantine and isolation protocol based on which industries are the most essential to carry us through the emergency and the Federal Gov’t has taken over ensuring they still get a pay check and/or Unemployment Insurance Payments that come from the states.
That is entirely proper in a National Emergency and Global Pandemic.
Times change as dos the understanding of liberal and conservative. Kennedy at he time was very liberal. Compared to todays democrats he could be considered a centrist or even a conservative.
Times change, people change, the platforms of the parties change.
Nixon was a neocon and was a combination of moderate, conservative, liberal.
A few of his liberal accomplishments:
Imposed wage and price controls for a period of ninety days. Enforced desegregation of Southern schools
Established the Environmental Protection Agency
Interventionist, pro-big government, pro-social-tradition
I understand…
Using the word communist to describe anything Grifty is doing is blasphemous…
1. Nationalization of all industries and the introduction of strict centralizedmanagement 2. State control of foreign trade 3. Strict discipline for workers, with strikes forbidden 4. Obligatory labor duty by non-working classes 5. Prodrazvyorstka – requisition of agricultural surplus (in excess of an absolute minimum) from peasants for centralized distribution among the remaining population 6. Rationing of food and most commodities, with centralized distribution in urban centers
It simply isn’t accurate He hasn’t seized property, nationalized industries, and has not taken control of the labor force, nor taken over control of all foreign trade.
If anything you can argue it’s a temporary Fascist takeover of certain businesses.
Socialism is clearly defined as an economic model, what we’re doing is not socialism.
Fascism is clearly defined as an economic model where the gov’t instead of nationalizing industries and the work force simply directs what they will produce and where it can be sent/utilized. That is what we’re currently doing similar to what was done during WWII.
This is not socialism, it is much closer to Economic Fascism.
Actually, anyone who got an actual education, rather than pretending deep throating rightard propaganda sites, understands that every developed nation in the world has a “Mixed Economy” - an economy that combines socialism and free enterprise.
Socialism is most commonly defined as the government controlling the means of production and the distribution of same. By that definition both the police and the military are socialist. There was not really a national military before Napoleon. Prior to him, capitalists hired mercenaries for their fighting. There were no municipal police in the west before the mid-1800s. Capitalists were required to provide their own security. Now, they are socialist enterprises. Other examples include the FDA, National Parks, and public roads. Yes, the latter are built by private companies, but that is CONTROLLED by the government. Libertardians are all about legalized weed and prostitution, but they quiver when confronted with the reality of no public education and no municipal police to protect them.
Now, under Regressives we see something similar but politically opposite in their fascist preference to have gov’t and large corporations work closely together. This is what we see often under trump, aka il Douche. It is part of the trickle-on scam where they toss an occasional bone to their idiot serfs to appease them.
Regressivism is popular with white males in America, because it suckers them with flattering reinforcement of their Hondo fantasies. They pretend it is negroes and illegal immigrants who are getting all the gov’t help, when the fact is the primary action of our gov’t is to protect the bourgeois snivelers from the mobs who would devour them in an instant, were the protections of “big government” to dissolve.
Bottom line, for the poorly educated whom trump relies on, “SOSHALIZM!” is just a dirty word, involving images of gulags and confiscations of guns, the latter leaving them to have to convince their sows that, “No, that really is six inches!” In the end nobody is more reliant on the government than are the Deplorables who are flattered by their owners who tell them what manly men they are. It is only because those sissies have been so thoroughly emasculated that it works at all.
Great!
Thanks for another demented diatribe by you based on utopian fetishes and reinterpretation of history! Typical from the post modernist playbook! Make up anything you want along the narrative of such moral relativistic arguments!
I should leave the country, because you are such an easily suckered simp you believe Venezuela is the only alternative to your lickspittle service to those who exploit your ignorance?
Let me think about that … nah, I choose not to take advice from an easily frightened, poorly educated feeb who could be suckered by moron like trump.
You really believe your cliched pretentiousness enhances your limp-wristed impotence, sissy? Oh well, your only alternative would be for you to back up some of your squawking, and we both know that ain’t gonna happen.
Why bother with someone who shows the immaturity of a 10 year old? You managed to level 20 different insults while derailing threads here! Great job! That of which you accuse people of you yourself are guilty of! Hypocrisy much are ya?
