George Orwell’s
1984
Showed us the nightmare vision of socialism gone to extremes
It didn’t come to pass.
Instead – we welcomed in something far more insidious.
Capitalism unmarked.
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I guess it’s fair to say that socialism is failing, especially as we see our southern border breeched continually by people fleeing from their failing socialist countries, into our capitalist nation.
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I would have to disagree on that. Those countries never had socialism. They tried to replace both a political system AND an economic system with just an economic system. Secondly, their countries were undermined and kept down by the capitalist ones. Their problems were caused and exacerbated by us.
Plus our capitalist societies have not done that good a job. Perhaps if those desperate people fleeing their countries saw the truth of what they would get when they arrive – instead of the stuff TV sells them, they would think twice.
In the end, both systems end up the same, just tools for the powerful to milk the rest of us.
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Thank you for the discussion. I’ll just quote the late, great Margaret Thatcher. “The only problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”
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The same Thathcher who destroyed communities and industries because it didn’t make her cronies enough money, who sold off our national rail so now it belongs to foreign companies who make a fortune, providing us with a sub-standard system at the highest prices in Europe that subsidies the lower fairs in their own country.
There might be more money in capitalist societies but it all belongs to a very, very small minority.
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She may have done all those things, but she was still correct about socialism.
Thanks for the chat!
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