TheRuleOfFools

411 pts ยท October 13, 2014


Are people really that stupid as to click on an ad on a porn site that promises to make your dick bigger??

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Im always confused as to how the ads are paid for. Anything my friend has ever seen has only ever looked like a phising attempt. 1

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3 socialism MAY take the form of state ownership of capital such as in Marxism-Leninism, but socialism may take many forms, like capitalism.

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2 when people do not see the fruits of their labour it is not socialism. Socialism requires high equality in distribution of wealth.

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Not when it isn't democratised and communalised. If that was so then Russia's Gazprom is an example of socialism, but it is state capitalism

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Means of production and thus is capitalist. Sweden used to be a lot more socialist economy but now is social market economy.

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Who have redistributive measures to correct for market failures. It is very soft socialism but ultimately relies on private ownership of the

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That is the broad definition of socialism. What you talk about is social democracy, which is places like Germany and Sweden and France,

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Society which thrives on mutual prosperity, each according to need etc etc. Socialism serves as a means to wither away the state.

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Ownership of the means of production. That, along with other social, political, and economic reforms, then leads to a stateless and moneyles

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Socialists reject the free market as ill conceived and further as a method of exploiting workers. They favour democratisation and social

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No it isn't. A socialist economy rejects private ownership of the means of production, and is a transitionary phase towards Communism.

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And not by the worker.

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Post-Dengist China are state capitalist, even if they are nominally socialist, as the means of production is owned by a corporate govt

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It's a system wherein the state limits political and economic freedoms, acts like a big corporation by itself. Countries like venezuela and

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State capitalism is an authoritarian form of market economy. It's not a free market by any means. It isn't capitalism as America knows it.

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If those aren't socialist, then there's never been a socialist country. State control of capital doesn't equate to socialism, just autocracy

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Venezuelan govt spendinf is only ~30% of GDP, less than either France or Sweden. State seizure of capital does not equate to socialism.

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Mixed market economy like Russia.

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It also isn't oligarchy like in Venezuela. Venezuela's govt spending as % of GDP is less than both Sweden or France. It is an authoritarian

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Nuclear deterrent so that nobody can collapse the regime.

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Most. Its policy is war footing and propaganda to maintain illusion of necessity of the regime to keep the people in line, and develop MAD

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Damage by nuking everyone around them in the event that they are attacked. It has no capability of hitting USA. It can maybe hit Japan at

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DPRK doesn't want to attack USA. DPRK realises that such would be a death wish. DPRK wants to be able to ensure that it can cause enough

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Russia and Turkey have great capitalist economies. :)

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I mean ... if you call 40m people living in poverty a success, then sure ... ?

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(Poor who Maduro used to rely on) led to total economic collapse. Chaved and Madueo = oligarchy, corruption, and very poor economic planning

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Was rigid and brittle, market failures coupled with refusal to reform the economy (for corruption but also because it would hurt the )

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Relied on state capitalism in an undiversified economy to generate income to redistribute, rather than create a social market. Market

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Both. Chavez's administration failed to develop the economy beyond petroleum. Maduro is incompetent. Both refused to lift price restrictions

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