The US is more a Socialist nation than a Capitalist nation.This coming a person who draws medicare and social security from the government treasury.
TOS.
The US is more a Socialist nation than a Capitalist nation.
One might argue anything. That argument sounds like Marx. Its not like he was pushing any agenda.
What are people suppose to do, turn down receiving those benefits?This coming a person who draws medicare and social security from the government treasury.
TOS.
This coming a person who draws medicare and social security from the government treasury.
TOS.
US is heading socialist but still far from what Europeans consider socialist. Our socialism would be to the right of most of the politics there.
State capitalism would be a step forward as compared with the present state of affairs in our Soviet Republic. If in approximately six months’ time state capitalism became established in our Republic, this would be a great success and a sure guarantee that within a year socialism will have gained a permanently firm hold and will have become invincible in this country.
The state capitalism, which is one of the principal aspects of the New Economic Policy, is, under Soviet power, a form of capitalism that is deliberately permitted and restricted by the working class. Our state capitalism differs essentially from the state capitalism in countries that have bourgeois governments in that the state with us is represented not by the bourgeoisie, but by the proletariat, who has succeeded in winning the full confidence of the peasantry.
Unfortunately, the introduction of state capitalism with us is not proceeding as quickly as we would like it. For example, so far we have not had a single important concession, and without foreign capital to help develop our economy, the latter’s quick rehabilitation is inconceivable.
We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not “in the name of capitalism, ” but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.
For socialism is merely the next step forward from state-capitalist monopoly. Or, in other words, socialism is merely state-capitalist monopoly which is made to serve the interests of the whole people and has to that extent ceased to be capitalist monopoly.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth!