just curious

[randyman]

how are you

[#FF0000]

Ha, any reason you edited your post? The original version was good.

[Blackscare]

What was the original?


And fine, thank you.

[Ele'ill]

I am curious as well about this original post.

[randyman]

Lol, I really wanted to know the answer to my first question, but the temptation to change it to something stupid and be a douche was just too strong. I like to call it my internet instinct:cool:.

I don't remember exactly what I put, but I'll put it as best as I can.

I considered myself a libertarian for a while, I believed that the free market was the answer to poverty and the world's economic problems, but then I read some of the posts on this website. I read things like all of the world's resources going to 10% of the world's population and very many poor countries in which it is is a struggle to stay alive as a result of capitalism. Honestly at first I thought it was bullshit, but then I thought about It more, and I began to think that it just might be true. Another thing that I am concerned about is personal liberties and living conditions in socialist\communist states. Problems such as the Peoples Republic of China censoring the internet and the leader of North Korea living a lavish lifestyle as the people of that country are dying of starvation. They can't possibly be doing it right! I am not sure about Cuba, I have heard both good and bad things. I love my country, the USA, and I love the personal freedoms that I have here as a citizen. I think that if socialism was ever to succeed that it would have to come hand in hand with personal liberty.

That's pretty much it.

[Comrade Gwydion]

In that case, you've pretty much got it right.

[randyman]

What exactly do you mean?

[Bud Struggle]

I think that if socialism was ever to succeed that it would have to come hand in hand with personal liberty. This is spot on.

[Dean]

What exactly do you mean?

Socialism is about the working class management of their working conditions. That is, basically popular or democratic management of the economy. This is contrasted from capitalism because the free market consistently devolves into centralized management systems.

Simply put, socialists feel that the "economy benefiting the few" is impractical and leads to conflicts and underproduction of certain sustenance goods, overproduction of luxury goods which are only distributed to the wealthy elite.

As far as your post is concerned, individual liberties, open societies and freedom of conscience are critical factors of any successful socialist system.

In other words, you won't have real worker control over the economy if workers can't even be allowed to say what they want or access information they want!

Socialism is about empowerment of the worker, transparent government and freedom of conscience.