Socialism Works and History Proves It
If capitalism were so successful at eliminating poverty, the United States today should be a paradise on earth.
If capitalism were so successful at eliminating poverty, the United States today should be a paradise on earth.
Politicians and media pundits like to use the term democracy, but that is just a veil to hide the actual workings of the capitalist system. Pull back the veil and what we have is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
Socialism, communism, and fascism are terms that are often misused. Only by educating ourselves on their true meanings can we begin to understand the important distinctions between them.
There really is only one way to go, and we can only get there by all rowing in the same direction at the same time and forcing the federal government to enact, and fully fund, single-payer healthcare – Medicare For All.
It is impossible to have an ideological discussion in good faith when people have been misled on the actual meanings of the terms in question.
The reason debates about economic equality, social mobility, access to opportunity, capitalism, socialism, and politics are bogged down in stubborn, circular quagmires is because most people see capitalism and commerce as the same thing.
If we are to consider Paine a socialist, he would likely be the most revolutionary of the socialists I will speak of in this series.
We need more with the moral fortitude to join such a movement and help us design this new world together.