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Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
You know, the ignorance shown by so many people
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
That is because private pharmaceutical companies have little incentive to export their drugs to cuba. venezuela, africa, and every other poor or highely nationalised economy. Wall Street is about profit so naturally investors encourage the corporate management to sell in america, australia, and other free market capitalist nations, to make the most profit.
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
The goals of the capitalist are not the same of the socialist "humanitarian". There exists a huge conflict of interest which is easy to spot.
Socialism /ˈsoʊʃəlɪzəm/ is an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy; or a political philosophy advocating such a system.[1] "Social ownership[size]" may refer to any one of, or a combination of, the following: cooperative enterprises, common ownership, autonomous public ownership or state ownership.[2] As a form of social organization, socialism is based on co-operative social relations and self-management; relatively equal power-relations and the reduction or elimination of hierarchy in the management of economic and political affairs.
A cooperative (also co-operative or co-op) is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit.[1] A cooperative is defined by the International Cooperative Alliance's Statement on the Cooperative Identity as "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through jointly owned and democratically controlled enterprise".[2] A cooperative may also be defined as a business owned and controlled equally by the people who use its services or by the people who work there. Various aspects regarding cooperative enterprise are the focus of study in the field of cooperative economics.
The PROUT Worker Cooperatives
By Carla Dickstein, Ph.D.
Cooperative enterprises—worker, consumer, agricultural and credit—form the core of a PROUT economy. The majority of manufacturing and service enterprises are organized as worker cooperatives.
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Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
For this reason free market socialism is ideal because it limits government control to the public sector with banking and major industry, while allowing the freedom to private entrepreneurs in other less critical sectors to enjoy the fruit of their labor.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
No... that is because Cuba, Venezuela, etc, don't want anything "for the people" from capitalist countries, they just want to make enough money to keep their socialist dictatorships alive...
In Cuba for example there are two types of hospitals. One is for the regular Cuban people, and the other one is for the rich tourists, and in Cuba every tourist is rich.
The hospitals that are for the regular Cuban people are always missing the essentials, including simple aspirins, meanwhile the hospitals for tourists are so clean you could even eat off the floor. The tourist hospitals have all the modern equipment, and are well stocked and supplied...
The regular Cuban people CANNOT go to tourist hospitals, even if they have dollars/euros/Canadian dollars etc to pay...
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
It's not so many people, it just looks that way because you post soo much. Usually it is just the same thing over and over and it rarely makes sense, but if this thread is being fleshed out with ignorance it's yours.
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
Case in point. You have posted that at least three times that I know of in this thread.
You can keep posting it. Post it a hundred times. It still doesn't make your argument.
Hitler used socialism to ensnare the minds of the citizens he used. ....
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by ElectricUniverse
No you post definitions and claim them as facts.
Hitler hated communism.
"The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might, and the Republic is in danger. Yes - danger from within and without. We need law and order! Without it our nation cannot survive." -Adolf Hitler
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
No you post definitions and claim them as facts. Repeating something doesn't make them true.
Here are some actual facts for you:
Originally posted by sapien82
As far as I can tell hitler was no socialist , he was a murder the likes of charles manson , not actually killing anyone himself , however using his position of power to force others to do his dirty work.
Hitler was a facist because he saw how well facism was doing for the italians and the power of their country it gave them.
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Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by sonnny1
Oh thanks. I know it's crazy. I am not lying and making it up about him being right leaning and not a socialist. Electric Universe and HoneyComb seem to think it's terrible to have Hitler be right leaning and want him to be left sooo bad. Electric thinks I am saying all this because I am a socialist (as some right wing media has trained him to think that of anyone that disagrees with him), but you know that I am a libertarian which makes me right leaning. I am just telling it like it is for the record. Not with an agenda like these guys.
Also worth noticing in that quote you posted that he spoke of them as a republic. Take notice Electric and Honey C.edit on 6-12-2011 by GogoVicMorrow because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by sonnny1
I know you did.
Figured I would back it up,with some fact..............Cause I see lots of folks hammering you.
It also helps your argument.
"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions." --Adolf Hitler
(Speech of May 1, 1927. Quoted by Toland, 1976, p. 306)
The 25 points of the NSDAP Program were composed by Adolf Hitler and Anton Drexler. They were publically presented on 24 February 1920 "to a crowd of almost two thousand and every single point was accepted amid jubilant approval." (Mein Kampf, Volume II, Chapter I) Hitler explained their purpose in the fifth chapter of the second volume of Mein Kampf:
[T]he program of the new movement was summed up in a few guiding principles, twenty-five in all. They were devised to give, primarily to the man of the people, a rough picture of the movement's aims. They are in a sense a political creed, which on the one hand recruits for the movement and on the other is suited to unite and weld together by a commonly recognized obligation those who have been recruited.
Hitler was intent on having a community of mutual interest that desired mutual success instead of one that was divided over the control of money or differing values.
THE COMMON INTEREST BEFORE SELF-INTEREST -
THAT IS THE SPIRIT OF THE PROGRAM. BREAKING OF THE THRALDOM OF INTEREST - THAT IS THE KERNEL OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM.
In these straightforward statements of intent, Hitler translated his ideology into a plan of action which would prove its popularity with the German people throughout the coming years. For many, the abruptness of its departure from the tradition of politics as practiced in the western world was as much of a shock as its liberal nature and foresight of the emerging problems of western democracy.
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