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View Poll Results: Smart Socialism?
Right Wing 3 13.04%
Left Wing 13 56.52%
Other(Third Way) 7 30.43%
Voters: 23. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 01-29-2019, 01:01 PM
 
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Originally Posted by BornintheSprings View Post
That is not socialism. Anything that rejects egalitarianism is right wing and therefore not socialist.
There is a concept of Aristocratic Socialism which is similar.

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Old 03-09-2019, 03:27 PM
 
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There are a lot of former Trump supporters backing Andrew Yang and some could say this is a step in the direction towards smart socialism.
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Old 03-09-2019, 05:03 PM
 
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Smart Socialism is a form of socialism that rejects egalitarianism and distributes wealth the most or most potentially productive members of society.

These are the two best summaries.


https://colonyofcommodus.wordpress.c...art-socialism/

https://jaymans.wordpress.com/2012/0...lutions-again/
You mean smart slavery, where a bunch of government bureaucrats force me to live my life their way, right?
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Old 03-09-2019, 06:04 PM
 
Location: Upstate NY 🇺🇸
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I like pie.
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Old 03-09-2019, 06:31 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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WWII 'fixed' the great depression, not socialism.
Damn, you beat me to it!
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Old 03-09-2019, 06:43 PM
 
Location: Houston
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When are we going to get that?
Purchasing Politicians is not capitalism.


https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/to...=a&indexType=c


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it is sad corporations have to pay so much to stop government from interfering with them. Reduce the favors and punishments government can dish out and these donations go down substantially. Of course, you don't want that.
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Old 03-09-2019, 07:54 PM
 
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Originally Posted by Dave Coe View Post
Smart Socialism is a form of socialism that rejects egalitarianism and distributes wealth the most or most potentially productive members of society.

These are the two best summaries.


https://colonyofcommodus.wordpress.c...art-socialism/

https://jaymans.wordpress.com/2012/0...lutions-again/
No such thing as smart socialism.
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Old 03-09-2019, 08:48 PM
 
Location: Madison, WI
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No, it's a fancy term for eugenics.
Would that make regular socialism dysgenics?
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Old 03-11-2019, 03:57 PM
 
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Would that make regular socialism dysgenics?
The current welfare state is. Smart Socialism would reserve dysgenics.
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Old 03-11-2019, 04:11 PM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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There was nothing smart or productie about the great depression winch was capitalism to the core, and took a whole lot of socialism to fix.
Actually, that "whole lot of socialism" prolonged it. FDR made a lot of ill-advised mistakes and kept millions in poverty for much longer than was necessary.

FDR's policies prolonged Depression by at least 7 years, UCLA economists calculate | UCLA
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