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Bluethroughu

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23. Russia, Venezuela, North Korea are led by Dictators.

Reply to EX500rider (Reply #21)

Mon Mar 4, 2024, 12:26 PM

Mar 2024

If the country is led by a dictator, it's a dictatorship. The dictator decides who gets everything and who dies.

We are not a capitalist economy because our collective taxes invest in capital, people, states, infrastructure etc. We are the closest country to socialism because of this and our ability to elect our representatives that make policy to distribute the collective to promote the general welfare of the country.
As long as we can keep it.

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Has there ever been a great society based on anti-socialism? [View all] OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2024 OP

Has there ever been a great society based on anti-capitalism? brooklynite Mar 2024 #1

What counts as a great society? RockRaven Mar 2024 #2

I'm not sure what this means. Ocelot II Mar 2024 #3

You are one of the folks on DU that I pay attention to. OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2024 #7

Thanks. But what do you mean by anti-socialist? Ocelot II Mar 2024 #10

My question was more primal. I think all socialists could argue and disagree about the best economic engine to better OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2024 #14

This message was self-deleted by its author Ocelot II Mar 2024 #8

Was Chile under Pinochet great? DBoon Mar 2024 #4

Do you think Pinochet was a socialist? OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2024 #5

No, he was an anti-socialist, implementing Milton Freedman's economics DBoon Mar 2024 #9

All of what you said....I cannot disagree with. OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2024 #11

"You must enslave humans to make markets free" DBoon Mar 2024 #15

When were markets "free"? OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2024 #18

In the imagination of Milton Friedman DBoon Mar 2024 #19

If people in the United States hate socialism... Bluethroughu Mar 2024 #6

My Constitution is not based on socialism. former9thward Mar 2024 #13

Wouldn't it be great if the Founding Fathers could come back for a 2 week visit? OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2024 #16

Yes former9thward Mar 2024 #20

The fact that property is returned to the government if Bluethroughu Mar 2024 #22

Absoluting nothing in all that has anything to do with sociailsm. former9thward Mar 2024 #28

You own a BUNDLE OF RIGHTS to a property, Bluethroughu Mar 2024 #31

The Confederacy eliminated "promote the general welfare" DBoon Mar 2024 #17

'Socialism' can depend whether you are benefitting or I am benefitting. keithbvadu2 Mar 2024 #12

A better question might be has there ever been a successful socialist economy EX500rider Mar 2024 #21

Russia, Venezuela, North Korea are led by Dictators. Bluethroughu Mar 2024 #23

You should look up the definition of Socialism 1st EX500rider Mar 2024 #24

I know what it means, and that's how we operate. Bluethroughu Mar 2024 #25

If the govt does not own the means of production it is not a socialist economy EX500rider Mar 2024 #27

So companies operating independently, but using Bluethroughu Mar 2024 #29

Are they required to accept? EX500rider Mar 2024 #30

There have been durable civilizations bucolic_frolic Mar 2024 #26

Of course not. No more so than there has ever been a great society based on socialism DFW Mar 2024 #32