Smart Socialism: Left Wing or Right Wing (solutions, lobby, ideology)

[Dave Coe]

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/

[neko_mimi]

Originally Posted by Dave Coe

Smart Socialism is a form of socialism that rejects egalitarianism and distributes wealth the most or most potentially productive members of society.

There’s already a name for that. It’s called capitalism.

[J746NEW]

Originally Posted by neko_mimi

There’s already a name for that. It’s called capitalism.

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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[No_Recess]

"Smart socialism"?

Is that when a nerd puts a gun to your head and relieves you of your wallet?

[lifeexplorer]

Originally Posted by Dave Coe

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?

[dozerbear]

Originally Posted by Dave Coe

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/

Yeah the first one would last about 5 minutes before somebody started squawking about "income inequality" or whatever "ism" they can make fit, and soon your "smart socialism" is nothing more than another complete failure of socialist ideology. And this is assuming you can get the rich to give away much of their money and that they would still be motivated to work as hard as they did to get rich, knowing it wont benefit them. Spoiler alert: They wont. Money will go offshore, accounting changes, tax evasion, or they'll just move to another country.

The writer also makes the insane assumption that "smart socialism" will continue to generate wealth just as a free market system does, even though it never has, and never will.

For the second one, eugenics? You know that would fly like an iron sh*thouse right?

[Catgirl64]

Originally Posted by No_Recess

"Smart socialism"?

Is that when a nerd puts a gun to your head and relieves you of your wallet?

No, it's a fancy term for eugenics.

[sean1the1]

Originally Posted by neko_mimi

There’s already a name for that. It’s called capitalism.

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.

[Vf6cruiser]

Having smart in the same sentence as socialism is absurd......it never works

[elvis44102]

for one the one article mentions eugenics, and i for one nearly stopped reading at that point as THAT word as the negative impact on me, as the authors imply "socialism" has on many....


as i understand it the "smarter" people already have in force a "new" form of socialism in place with all the perks offered by many of the leading IT companies google for instance...some have been said to explain whats needed and they are unknowingly explaining whats already being adopted by some.


and if i hear another person mention the "hard working" rich people without also mentioning the larger group of rich people who inherited their wealth. many "smart" people are motivated by job satisfaction for example money is NOT always the prime motivator..but this notion SEEMS to be outside many conservatives comprehension