Millennials love socialism.
The reason is simple. They dream of a world where the government takes care of their every need, work is at a minimal, and lots of free stuff is readily handed out by the government, making their university degree, in the always useful field of gender studies, worthwhile.
En sak som stör mig...Socialister hävdar ofta att socialismen är det samhällssystem som bäst gynnar samarbete människor emellan.Vilket är dumheter.Oavsett hur mycket socialister hävdar att socialismen styrs av folket eller någon annan diffus kollektiv entitet – så landar det alltid i att en liten klick styr och ställer över alla andra.Och det slutar alltid med misshushållning, vanstyre och förtryck – oavsett om det gäller Sovjetunionen, Kambodja, Kuba, Venezu
Indeed, the young are tethered to a slumber land of no ideas or ideals. Shackled to the beasts of debt and endless consumer-rent-mortgage-fee-levy-tax-fine-surcharge-hidden add on Capitalism. They amble to the nearest Starbucks and find the plastic putrid world and shitty coffee essence safe, conformist, the place to snuggle in with Twitter-Snapchat-Instagram-Facebook-Spotify.
The introduction of the Republican legislation to “repeal and replace” Obamacare is no more than latest scrimmage in the ongoing one-sided war against the poor and working class. The “Affordable Care Act” (ACA, better known as Obamacare) proved to be both unaffordable and unable to provide comprehensive care for millions.
For at least 20 years, the mainstream political and academic narrative in the west has been that socialism is a failure. Many site production deadlock, strikes, riots and a punitive taxation system to justify these claims.
Scandinavia occupies a special place in the minds of socialists around the world. But is it really the socialist Valhalla it’s feted to be?
The free market encourages some level of social morality, while collectivist economic systems undermine it. Yet 20th-century economist Wilhelm Röpke argued that we cannot rely primarily on the free market — and certainly not on the free market alone — to produce the social morality the market itself needs to thrive.
In 2017 the United States finds itself with a billionaire president who defeated, as adjudged by electoral college votes, the multimillionaire Hillary Clinton. In fact, high political office in the US has become a stepping stone to personal enrichment.
Läs min senaste krönika hos Mårtensson:Den goda viljans tyranni »"Med tanke på hur mycket lidande, förtryck och misshushållning kommunismen och socialismen har skapat de senaste hundra åren kan man tycka att vi borde ha lärt oss något. Men icke.
