tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post6162513035820355562..comments2024-03-29T02:19:19.866-04:00Comments on Mike Norman Economics: Charles McKelvey — What Socialism Can and Can’t Domike normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03296006882513340747noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-78699752243553427762018-12-20T15:53:31.871-05:002018-12-20T15:53:31.871-05:00I would alter that to read, "We can't hav...I would alter that to read, <i>"We can't have socialism everywhere till it isn't attacked from everywhere."</i> <br /><br />As things are now throughout most of the world, everyone toils for bankers and rich owners. <br /><br />Slave-owners use lies to "justify" their tyranny. <br /><br />Slaves use rationalizations to "justify" their misery.Konradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01739209449391854796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-83460608132596275692018-12-20T15:31:49.383-05:002018-12-20T15:31:49.383-05:00“In the present stage of human development, the na...<i>“In the present stage of human development, the nations that are seeking to construct socialism cannot fully provide the social and economic rights of the people.” </i><br /><br />Sounds suspiciously like that lame, old excuse <i>"We can't have true Communism anywhere till we have it everywhere."</i> <br /><br />Hint to the morally challenged: A just society is a POPULAR society; why then do you advocate for injustice? Such as for privileges for usury?Andrew Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14296407661618321637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-81195904698553014382018-12-20T12:51:17.720-05:002018-12-20T12:51:17.720-05:00.
What socialism can and cannot do
“In the prese....<br /><b>What socialism can and cannot do</b><br /><br /><i> “In the present stage of human development, the nations that are seeking to construct socialism cannot fully provide the social and economic rights of the people.”</i> <br /><br />One reason for this is that socialist nations are under constant attack from neoliberal nations. For example, the island nation of Cuba has been sanctioned, blockaded, and embargoed for sixty years. <br /><br />Average idiots who attack socialist and semi-socialist nations (like Venezuela) ignore the neoliberal war on those nations. <br /><br /><i> “In the case of Cuba, for example, full and equal access to education, health, culture, and sport in essence exists. However, there is unequal access to housing and transportation; minimal nutrition is available to all, but there are more options for those with greater financial resources.”</i><br /><br />Some degree of social stratification is inevitable in all human societies, no matter how socialist. <br /><br />Nonetheless, in places like Cuba we do not see the stupendous gulf between the rich and the rest like we see in neoliberal nations. <br /><br />Neoliberals and their toadies (which include most Americans) claim that Cuba is overrun with homeless people. Cuba does indeed have homeless people, but their number is very small, and they mainly consist of elderly people with substance abuse problems (drugs, alcohol, etc). Some have mental health issues, and do not wish to live in shelters. Cuba has no “tent cities,” and all Cubans (homeless or not) have free education and medical care. <br /><br />Meanwhile in neoliberal countries, the vast and growing sea of homeless people is created by neoliberalism, and these people have no access to affordable education or health care. <br /><br /><b>Peasants in neoliberal countries cope with their ever-worsening poverty by attacking socialism. The poorer they become, the more desperately they rationalize their misery by falsely imagining that socialist nations are even worse, and that sanctions, embargoes, and blockades are irrelevant.</b><br /><br /><i><b>By the way,</b></i> this is just me, but I don’t care for that <i>Counterpunch</i> article. Written by an academic, it sounds academic – i.e. it is very poorly written. Academics fear they won’t be taken seriously unless three fourths of their diction is gibberish and empty verbiage.Konradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01739209449391854796noreply@blogger.com