Reagan took the credit for destroying a State-Capitalist Nation posed as a communist state. Pathetic. And people are misled enough to think Communism has actually been attempted. It's IMPOSSIBLE to attempt communism or Socialism. Its NOT that simplistic.
Socialism and communism are a slow growing psychological movement in society.
For example, a 5 year old may want be smart in terms of social skills, be able to drive a car well, hold a job, think outside themselves and clean the house. But the maturity has not been developed. The 5 year old may attempt to get a job (Forget about labor laws for a minute) but the 5 year old has not progressed enough mentally in order to understand the concept of maturity in the first place because not enough events have occurred to alter their perspective on life and what is rational. The child may think about what is fun, or may get in an accident because they do not posess enough skills to be driving in the first place. The child may have a "Best friend" and "Second Best Friend" mentality in school, even though we know this is immature. The child must learn lessons through hardship based on poor choices and mistakes based on their impulsiveness and selfishness, just like we as a society do. A year to society's growth may equal 10, 20, or even 100 years.
Time must naturally go by in order for the person to grow and do things in a healthy way. If society sees socialism as a possible future social structure, we can't just have an instantaneous revolution! Society must build its way SLOWLY as nations would see it makes sense in terms of getting the resources to society using means besides money. Money will be seen as something not sensible because there isn't enough money to equal the amount of resources in the world in which there are more then enough. Money will be something that limits the quality of food, health care, automobiles, energy, and every aspect you can imagine. We make a market of every thing we want and need, because of greed. We have a greedy mentality BECAUSE we are brainwashed into competing against each other rather then WORKING together. Something that is communal based is far more rational, and no country borders are needed. No countries should exist, it just keeps society separated and less educated. We are still living in a greedy mentality because Capitalism DOES affect the psychology of society. THIS is what Marx was trying to say, and he didn't believe in anybody being ruled under a tyrant. Capitalism is not an economic system, nor is socialism or communism. They are SOCIAL STRUCTURES.
The USSR was a COUNTRY, Used MONEY, was divided by a class based system that we know as STATE CAPITALISM. This is what happened because people didn't possess the intellectualism in society in order to operate a social or communal based society!! When a "Revolution" was attempted, of course it was a failure waiting to happen from the beginning. Because people still had a Capitalist mentality, communism would never work! All that happened was a Capitalist nation took freedoms away from other Capitalists and made the government ONE SOLE Capitalist, and gave every laborer the same paycheck. Sounds fucked up doesn't it? There is nothing socialist about that. Socialism doesn't mean everyone is the SAME in terms of financial reasoning. The psychology of society can't just be changed at the snap of fingers. Lessons that we as a society experience will be continued to be learned together as we grow over the years. Americans are buying guns like crazy because of how the GOP is literally freaking people out over nothing, and we may see a huge civil war break out sometime in my generation. People will see how oppressive the American government and its Capitalist system is destructive and uncivil. Sure, helping business keep going and keeping the economy is healthy for financial figures, but how is it healthy for people as a whole?
We as a society have the mentality of a teenager because of the stage we are in. We won't be stuck in Capitalism forever, it just SEEMS this way because of how people think stubbornly in our CURRENT present time. We are just a fragment of human history. Don't you think the oppressed class in the slavery structure thousands of years ago thought that their current structure would always remain in tact? Why do you think each previous social structure evolved later on to increase the standard of living for a higher portion of society? We are enslaved and oppressed by the Capitalists that employ us as well as the wealthy. The concept of a nation's government are what also control us like a tyrant, its really not that different when you think about it critically. People claim socialism would never happen due to greed, but that statement is just the same recycled and distorted concept of how social structures are formed without human interference. Because all our structures sort of develop on their own based on a course of events and hard lessons learned when we see what money does to us, such as the oil spills we just had!
More of my generation are criticizing Capitalism more then before while older generations who were raised with older and out-dated ways of thinking will die eventually. My generation, will be more open to critique our current structure that is so oppressive and destructive. The generations after me will grow and learn further. This is what progressive means, moving forward. If we were literally to stay in a Capitalist state forever as a globe, we will just destroy ourselves and society won't even exist anymore. We are going to see some really freaky shit happen in the future believe me. The older generations constantly think they are right, yet if people my age with this mindset keep thinking this way, we will eventually allow a self-fulling prophecy to take place! If we say humans will always be revolving around money to operate society and our needs/wants, then we shall reap what we sow. So don't knock people who explore socialist concepts, because its those socialists that can make change POSSIBLE in decades, hundreds, thousands of years.
Because thinking the same out-dated ways will just keep us stuck here. It's time to accept that Reagan and the GOP were wrong (He was senile anyway), and let our future generations be who moves us forward away from this mess. Reagan claimed the USSR was an evil empire (Which it was) but failed to see that our American nation is JUST as evil if not more when we compare what we do to the globe so selfishly. We constantly hear that socialism is a fantasy belief, well that is true, if you want to think of social growth in an irrational and simplistic way. No wonder why people don't get it.
Socialism and communism are a slow growing psychological movement in society.
For example, a 5 year old may want be smart in terms of social skills, be able to drive a car well, hold a job, think outside themselves and clean the house. But the maturity has not been developed. The 5 year old may attempt to get a job (Forget about labor laws for a minute) but the 5 year old has not progressed enough mentally in order to understand the concept of maturity in the first place because not enough events have occurred to alter their perspective on life and what is rational. The child may think about what is fun, or may get in an accident because they do not posess enough skills to be driving in the first place. The child may have a "Best friend" and "Second Best Friend" mentality in school, even though we know this is immature. The child must learn lessons through hardship based on poor choices and mistakes based on their impulsiveness and selfishness, just like we as a society do. A year to society's growth may equal 10, 20, or even 100 years.
Time must naturally go by in order for the person to grow and do things in a healthy way. If society sees socialism as a possible future social structure, we can't just have an instantaneous revolution! Society must build its way SLOWLY as nations would see it makes sense in terms of getting the resources to society using means besides money. Money will be seen as something not sensible because there isn't enough money to equal the amount of resources in the world in which there are more then enough. Money will be something that limits the quality of food, health care, automobiles, energy, and every aspect you can imagine. We make a market of every thing we want and need, because of greed. We have a greedy mentality BECAUSE we are brainwashed into competing against each other rather then WORKING together. Something that is communal based is far more rational, and no country borders are needed. No countries should exist, it just keeps society separated and less educated. We are still living in a greedy mentality because Capitalism DOES affect the psychology of society. THIS is what Marx was trying to say, and he didn't believe in anybody being ruled under a tyrant. Capitalism is not an economic system, nor is socialism or communism. They are SOCIAL STRUCTURES.
The USSR was a COUNTRY, Used MONEY, was divided by a class based system that we know as STATE CAPITALISM. This is what happened because people didn't possess the intellectualism in society in order to operate a social or communal based society!! When a "Revolution" was attempted, of course it was a failure waiting to happen from the beginning. Because people still had a Capitalist mentality, communism would never work! All that happened was a Capitalist nation took freedoms away from other Capitalists and made the government ONE SOLE Capitalist, and gave every laborer the same paycheck. Sounds fucked up doesn't it? There is nothing socialist about that. Socialism doesn't mean everyone is the SAME in terms of financial reasoning. The psychology of society can't just be changed at the snap of fingers. Lessons that we as a society experience will be continued to be learned together as we grow over the years. Americans are buying guns like crazy because of how the GOP is literally freaking people out over nothing, and we may see a huge civil war break out sometime in my generation. People will see how oppressive the American government and its Capitalist system is destructive and uncivil. Sure, helping business keep going and keeping the economy is healthy for financial figures, but how is it healthy for people as a whole?
We as a society have the mentality of a teenager because of the stage we are in. We won't be stuck in Capitalism forever, it just SEEMS this way because of how people think stubbornly in our CURRENT present time. We are just a fragment of human history. Don't you think the oppressed class in the slavery structure thousands of years ago thought that their current structure would always remain in tact? Why do you think each previous social structure evolved later on to increase the standard of living for a higher portion of society? We are enslaved and oppressed by the Capitalists that employ us as well as the wealthy. The concept of a nation's government are what also control us like a tyrant, its really not that different when you think about it critically. People claim socialism would never happen due to greed, but that statement is just the same recycled and distorted concept of how social structures are formed without human interference. Because all our structures sort of develop on their own based on a course of events and hard lessons learned when we see what money does to us, such as the oil spills we just had!
More of my generation are criticizing Capitalism more then before while older generations who were raised with older and out-dated ways of thinking will die eventually. My generation, will be more open to critique our current structure that is so oppressive and destructive. The generations after me will grow and learn further. This is what progressive means, moving forward. If we were literally to stay in a Capitalist state forever as a globe, we will just destroy ourselves and society won't even exist anymore. We are going to see some really freaky shit happen in the future believe me. The older generations constantly think they are right, yet if people my age with this mindset keep thinking this way, we will eventually allow a self-fulling prophecy to take place! If we say humans will always be revolving around money to operate society and our needs/wants, then we shall reap what we sow. So don't knock people who explore socialist concepts, because its those socialists that can make change POSSIBLE in decades, hundreds, thousands of years.
Because thinking the same out-dated ways will just keep us stuck here. It's time to accept that Reagan and the GOP were wrong (He was senile anyway), and let our future generations be who moves us forward away from this mess. Reagan claimed the USSR was an evil empire (Which it was) but failed to see that our American nation is JUST as evil if not more when we compare what we do to the globe so selfishly. We constantly hear that socialism is a fantasy belief, well that is true, if you want to think of social growth in an irrational and simplistic way. No wonder why people don't get it.
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