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Thread #102414   Message #2074947
Posted By: alanabit
12-Jun-07 - 01:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: Anyone still a socialist/communist?
Subject: RE: BS: Anyone still a socialist/communist?
I am one of those Godless, filthy socialist swine... In fact, I would tend to go along with those posters, who effectively say that any sane society must balance socialism and capitalism. In their most fundamental forms, socialism and capitalism are simply the extremes of structuring society to cater for the needs of society as a whole or to protect the rights of the individual. It does not take a genius to see that any society with a future has to achieve a balance between the two.
I personally think that society currently confers too many priveleges on those, who already have wealth and power. That makes me a socialist in most people's book.
We get into the same trap here that we do with the religious debates. There is always a danger of believing that other poeple are going to define themselves by our definitions of particular concepts.