List All Redeeming Values - If any A QUEST
In the discussion my use of 'best of'' socialism as cultural system and capitalism as a financial system caused some questions. Capitalism was much easier. If it's so bad why do socialists rely on it? Why has everything bad done by capitalists been condoned, demanded, and made legal by socialists. So the idea there is easy. Unfettered but controlled against the always present criminal class serves for a short explanation.
Then I turned to socialism....
QUESTION
List any and all redeeming values of Socialism including intended but not carried out changes affecting the nation - in any nation.
If not state, if you have some, ideas and perhaps a useful name for any and all of the needs that society should have and those which require some government.
I made it broad as possible as in casting a net rather than spearing a grouper.
Then I turned to socialism....
QUESTION
List any and all redeeming values of Socialism including intended but not carried out changes affecting the nation - in any nation.
If not state, if you have some, ideas and perhaps a useful name for any and all of the needs that society should have and those which require some government.
I made it broad as possible as in casting a net rather than spearing a grouper.
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"The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man’s self-defense, and, as such, may resort to force only against those who start the use of force. The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law. But a government that initiates the employment of force against men who had forced no one, the employment of armed compulsion against disarmed victims, is a nightmare infernal machine designed to annihilate morality: such a government reverses its only moral purpose and switches from the role of protector to the role of man’s deadliest enemy, from the role of policeman to the role of a criminal vested with the right to the wielding of violence against victims deprived of the right of self-defense. Such a government substitutes for morality the following rule of social conduct: you may do whatever you please to your neighbor, provided your gang is bigger than his." Galt's Speech