The socialists want the government to protect the poorer population from the corrupt corporations. They want the government to regulate the economy (set product prices). They are for socialist systems such as, welfare, Medicaid, social security, and free health care and our current local police and fire department systems. The exact opposite of utopian socialism would be the Tea party or Republican extremists. They want less government involvement in "big business". They would like to also slowly get remove the current socialist systems and replace them with privatized ones.
Capitalism is usually supported by the higher paid, while Socialism is generally supported by the lower class. The socialist politicians focus there platform on trying to make everyone economically "equal". The Capitalist do not want the country's population the be equal because if they were it would decreases revenue.
One of the main flaws of capitalism is that it makes the economy "money" oriented which makes the most corporations only care about profit. In a capitalist country you have a small chance of acquiring lavish amounts of money; although in a socialist country there is sometimes no chance of obtaining massive amounts of money that is totally unnecessary to have. Capitalism will make the poor poorer and the rich richer, while socialism takes the risk of making everyone poor. While capitalism has the capability to destroy a country it first will destroy other countries.
Hypothetically, if a capitalist country does not enforce any regulations on a corporation based in their own country, why would they regulate what the corporation can do in another other country? The corporation will then monopolize and industry such as grain, in a poor country like Nigeria. The people of Nigeria will be forced to work for that corporation, therefore that corporation can pay the Nigerian workers what ever they want. This is called outsourcing; it will decrease the jobs in the home country. Putting more lower class out of work, so since they are out of work that will increase the crime rate and foreclose on houses. It can Induce starvation upon the home country and Nigeria. That will increase inflation and eventually cause the country to collapse.
Socialism will brake down large corporations into local corporative this will ensure that the company cannot outsource. But there is always a down side, if you work for business that makes less money you will obviously be paid less. This does not mean if you work for a company that grosses more money you will make more; you may indeed make less since the company is usually only concerned about profit. If you work in a smaller business then you have less chance for career advancement.
Socialism or how its defined in modern use, usually oppresses people. This is because in the countries that socialism failed, the country started out poor and uneducated and the people did not understand what power the masses had. They were easily taken advantage of and it made it effortless for a corrupt dictator to take power and control the minds of its people. Tahe more uneducated you are the easier it is for the central government to brainwash you.
The ideologies' have their flaws and both have killed vast amounts of people. The way they kill people is extremely different, which makes it harder to find the real number of deaths. Socialism has killed nearly 110,000,000 a large portion of this number was killed but the Russians. This could greatly change the amount of people killed. George Orwell stated: "In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated." If this is true then the amout of deaths caused by socialism would be much less. The other reason that the number is so large is that this is including the deaths from the communist revolutions, such as those in Spain, Cuba, and every South American country.
The idea that Hitler was a socialist, is a myth. The party itself was socialist, but Hitler was not. In his book Mein Kampf he states how not only the Jews are to blame for the worlds problems but the socialists were as well.
The way the people are killed under communism is that the government kills anyone who opposes the party's regime. Capitalism kills by large corporations bribing the politicians to start wars over resources. They also starve poorer 3rd world countries; such as Nigeria, Somalia and helped cause "The Irish Potato Famine". Capitalism starts wars such as the Iraq war, and the Balkan Wars. The system will totally deplete a country's resources, and leave the population starving.
The gulf oil spill was partially caused by capitalism. The American government did not security laws on BP which allowed them to cut corners on safety. The country is then put into shambles after Capitalism has drained it. It makes it easy for a dictator to take power and cause genocides.
Both Communism and Capitalism have been used throughout the world in the form of variants so it is hard to define what is "True Communism and True Capitalism". Karl Marx is the known as the founder of communism; when he wrote the book The Communist Manifesto in 1888. The founding of capitalism is attributed to Adam Smith; whose book, "The Wealth of Nations" was the first to outline of the fundamentals of capitalism.
There have been many great thinkers from both ideologies, Such as communist Ernesto'Che' Guevara, Pablo Neruda, Jean-Paul Sartre and Karl Liebknecht. There are many great capitalist thinkers as well, Ronald Reagan, Calvin Coolidge, and Thomas Hobbes.
There have been famous philosophers that also wrote books about how their own beliefs had flaws; they addressed them instead of ignoring them. George Orwell wrote the book Animal Farm that pointed out the flaws of socialism. George Orwell was a firm believer in socialism when he said: "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I know it." This means that a democratic socialism there should not be a totalitarian dictator.
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