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Originally Posted by danielf
Okay, talk about weird... If the goal of socialism is communism, then why have socialism in the first place?
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Because Socialists realise that Communism can't be attained in one fell swoop and try to introduce it gradually,chipping away at capitalism and private ownership bit by bit.
Of course there are those who thought you could jump straight ahead to Communism.... the results are well known and have been mentioned already.
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Originally Posted by danielf
It seems to me that people are just playing silly semantic games here. It's perfectly possible to support the notion that those who earn more pay in a bit more (but get to keep more as well), without hankering for a world where everyone earns the same and the state controls everything. And anyone who is even going to suggest different needs to have his head examined.
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In a Gulag,preferably?
just kidding,I actually agree with you.... not with the head-examining bit,though.
Of course tax needs to be levied for defence,policing,some social security,building roads and some infrastructure. Where I begin to object is this whole Bingo wheel of do-gooderism and 'giving this group more than the others because they may need it' nonsense.
By the by,I explicitly include Industry in my call for welfare reform.... the way we prop up Industries and grant them subsidies when they have enough money themselves is ridiculous.