I’m a student currently in college, and the other day ago I saw this article printed in one of the “alternative magazines” that is read by many of the student body. Here is a link of the article though that had me totally outraged:
I just wanted to get any comments/opinions on the article and possibly some of you to provide some fact-checking to the article.
P.S I want it to be clear though that I fully support the publishing of the newspaper and article because it shouldn’t be up to me or anyone else to determine what can or can not be printed.
I’ll have to use it the next time someone complains about me going off about socialism in Amerika.
Most people don’t accept that the government has instituted socialistic policies so they will be forced to refute the article or concede the point and defend socialism.
While most people agree that completelely socialistic economy fails (hard to argue with examples like Soviet Union or N.Korea) they think that “a little bit” of socialism is harmless. After all, who would be harmed by free education, free health care, free lunch, free everything? If you point out the failures in government institutions they’d say it’s only due to lack of funding.
I was assuming that ‘free’ X meant that industry X was nationalized or ‘collectively’ ‘owned’. So, free everything would mean every industry is nationalized - i. e. complete socialism - which of course would never work.
With respect to security, if you mean material security, then socialism will always lose to the free-market. But if by security you mean avoiding change, status quo, hierarchy, political control, etc, then socialism makes sense…for the ruling ‘elites’.
“A number of people even suggested The Fine Print run a “Spotlight on Capitalism” column (as if the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, Newsweek and Time Magazine aren’t enough of an ideological crutch for our failing system).”
oh my days…as if THAT doesn’t set the tone. geez. makes me remember why we have a Mises Institute, not that I could possibly forget. it’s as if you know everything this left-wing whip is going to say…
ps: “Yes, the history of socialism in America goes back a long way, and it is intertwined with some of the most shining examples of social progress and equality in our history. From the eight-hour day to the civil rights movement to opposition of the Iraq war, look closely and you’re likely to find socialists in the fore. So the next time you meet one, thank your neighborhood Red for some of the things we all enjoy”
‘uphill struggle’ just doesn’t quite cut it does it…
“A number of people even suggested The Fine Print run a “Spotlight on Capitalism” column (as if the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, Newsweek and Time Magazine aren’t enough of an ideological crutch for our failing system).”
This is why I don’t like the word ‘capitalism’ anymore, and prefer ‘free market,’ because the term ‘free’ conotates something about the nature of the system that I support. ‘Capitalism’ seems to refer in common vernacular as any system with private ownership of capital, which is compatible with systems other than free market.