Re: Socialism hates success and especially hates successfyl people

mrtouchdown · 2020-11-21T20:26:34.992Z

Equal failure for all is what we're experiencing today. And, I guarantee you it will ALWAYS be done in the name of safety and security. ALWAYS. And, it will always be good for you. ALWAYS. Hundreds and maybe thousands of jobs will be lost across collegiate sports in the years ahead. It was getting too successful and capitalistic. See above.

The Jewish culture of the Old Testament was theocratic--leaving the corners of the field for the poor to harvest (BTW, that's work) and providing for those too sick to glean was a means by which the average citizen served God.

The New Testament was not written to rulers, but to believers who are supposed to love one another, and especially provide for the fatherless and widows.

There are also strong cautions given warning against materialism and greed, because our treasure is in heaven.

But at no point does the Bible ever 1) tell governments to redistribute wealth or the means of wealth production--that's a guaranteed method of bringing down a government; 2) discourage the profit motive (in fact, the most basic rule of agricultural prosperity is "Don't muzzle the ox that treads out the grain"); or 3) imply that caring for others is a secular responsibility. It is a means by which an individual serves God.

If Bernie Sanders or Raphael Warnocke is forcing me to give up my resources to provide for someone who has repeatedly made bad choices in life, and he is using the Bible as the basis of his power-grab, than he is making himself my priest as well as weakening the means of production.

He does not have that legal or moral authority.

Neither do you.

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Nov 23, 2020, 4:03 PM [ in reply to Re: Socialism hates success and especially hates successfyl people ]

Tardog.

Did you look at the attached file ? Marx said, "from each according to his abilities" Therefore the 5 star players would be expected to contribute more - which is what we expect.

"and to each according to their needs." Here is where the equality come in - in the share of the victory. I don't think TL or ETN are strutting around after the game bragging about they did it all themselves. It is a team win.

I think this is true of Clemson - every individual is striving to give 100% so that the team is successful. And the team celebrates their achievements together - equally.

This is the mindset that social democrats have. They want to help everyone to improve so that each can contribute to OUR society according to their potential abilities. And they want everyone to share more equitably in the rewards that our society creates.

Notice I did NOT say equally. Social democrats want the rewards to be spread out more fairly, but they have no illusion that every contributor will earn equal rewards. But we would like to see there be far less of a disparity among all of society's contributors.

As such, there are some places in our economy where there should be some industries where there should be some government ownership. In other industries, some government regulation is sufficient to serve the good of the whole. And there are plenty of industries where free competition serves the good of the people.

This combination of approaches is called a mixed economy - or socialism. And the vast majority of developed nations have been moving in this direction for quite some time. Communist countries are finding that free enterprise better addresses some of their markets. And capitalistic countries are finding some industries that need government regulation.

In the miuddle of those two extremes is a mixed economy - economic (and democratic) socialism.

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