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Originally posted by Yan My (Mine?) and many other opinions can be found here.

For God's sake if you wanna know anything about socialism that is the last place you wanna go!

Also, ignore anythink :tvd: says about it!

I think capitalism will probably spread much more than socialism will, unfortunately. Socialism is a much better and fair economic system, and doesn't leave such a wide spectrum of rich and poor that capitalism does. It also doesn't lead to such greedy and ruthless corporations like we have here in the USA. Unfortunately, socialism nor communism don't usually work as well in practice as they do in theory.

To make myself clearer, under "market monotheism" I understand having as sole values the values of the market (regardless of social, moral ones)

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Originally posted by brashy To make myself clearer, under "market monotheism" I understand having as sole values the values of the market (regardless of social, moral ones)

Well you don't really make your point any clearer because there's virtually no state on the planet that operates under "market monotheism" according to that definition. Or is there no such thing as unemployment insurance? Or is there no such thing as welfare? Are are there no government agencies that address market externalities, etc.?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism

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Originally posted by d-miurge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism

^ Gracious. However, I'm confused. Is "classless society" an oxymoron?

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Originally posted by nickpdx I think capitalism will probably spread much more than socialism will, unfortunately. Socialism is a much better and fair economic system, and doesn't leave such a wide spectrum of rich and poor that capitalism does. It also doesn't lead to such greedy and ruthless corporations like we have here in the USA. Unfortunately, socialism nor communism don't usually work as well in practice as they do in theory.

Socialism is better at economics than capitalism?? geez buddy... have you ever learnt anything about economics?

btw, this thread belongs in PDD room..

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Originally posted by Estella ^ Gracious. However, I'm confused. Is "classless society" an oxymoron?

the classless society is not a oxymoron, currently the societies are formed with classes, it'ss the 'movement of the history' for Marx. But he wants to reach a classless society to avoid the inequalities.

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Originally posted by d-miurge the classless society is not a oxymoron, currently the societies are formed with classes, it'ss the 'movement of the history' for Marx. But he wants to reach a classless society to avoid the inequalities.

Yes, I understand this. But to me, it is a bit of an oxymoron. He hypothesized the middle class would revolutionize correct?