Post by NFA on Oct 9, 2020 23:02:03 GMT 8
[Admin: this is a long read and I have no idea who is behind it]
Ayn Rand wrote "There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.”
Socialism is the robbing of the Productive by the Unaccountable. Socialism is the primarily end result of Democracy because the Candidates who promise the most out of the public treasury are elected. Socialism is having those who make very little money, with little or no taxes, decide how much taxes should be paid by those who make more money, by the elected politicians they have voted into office.
Fascism
The term Fascist is often used as an insult towards people who are conservative. Conservative People are those who believe in self-reliance and everyone earning their own way with help to only the truly needy and are often regarded as Capitalists. The best definition for Facism comes from "The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics":
"As an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. The word derives from fasces, the Roman symbol of collectivism and power: a tied bundle of rods with a protruding ax. In its day (the 1920s and 1930s), fascism was seen as the happy medium between boom-and-bust-prone liberal capitalism, with its alleged class conflict, wasteful competition, and profit-oriented egoism, and revolutionary Marxism, with its violent and socially divisive persecution of the bourgeoisie. Fascism substituted the particularity of nationalism and racialism—“blood and soil”—for the internationalism of both classical liberalism and Marxism.
Where socialism sought totalitarian control of a society’s economic processes through direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally private owners. Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their property in the “national interest”—that is, as the autocratic authority conceived it. ... " by Sheldon Richman
The term Fascist is often used as an insult towards people who are conservative. Conservative People are those who believe in self-reliance and everyone earning their own way with help to only the truly needy and are often regarded as Capitalists. The best definition for Facism comes from "The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics":
"As an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. The word derives from fasces, the Roman symbol of collectivism and power: a tied bundle of rods with a protruding ax. In its day (the 1920s and 1930s), fascism was seen as the happy medium between boom-and-bust-prone liberal capitalism, with its alleged class conflict, wasteful competition, and profit-oriented egoism, and revolutionary Marxism, with its violent and socially divisive persecution of the bourgeoisie. Fascism substituted the particularity of nationalism and racialism—“blood and soil”—for the internationalism of both classical liberalism and Marxism.
Where socialism sought totalitarian control of a society’s economic processes through direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally private owners. Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their property in the “national interest”—that is, as the autocratic authority conceived it. ... " by Sheldon Richman