Hi Readers'
Anyone that listens to rhetoric spouted by the Retro-Republicans has heard the word "Socialism" used to insult those that disagree with the Republican Theology.They know their target audience doesn't know the difference between Communism and Socialism so they have demonized the word socialism. This scares the uneducated because they see both words as the same. Thus they make the person being called a socialist a pariah.
Socialism and Communism are two opposite forms of government, although Communist started out with similar goals as Socialist. I'll tell you how Communism began in Russia. The Russian government was run by czars, which were royal families that were similar to kingdoms. Some of these families were cruel to their citizens and killings happened many times for no reason. This led to cruelty to Jewish people and the rounding up of Jews and taking their land from them. This process was called the Programs. Jews were sent to The USA and other countries.
Many people opposed to the Czarist government became Socialist. They read the words of the father of Socialism, Karl Marx. In the early 1900's a new voice was being listened to in Russia, Vladimer Lenin(born Vladimer Ilyich Ulyanov) Lenin was an alias he used in the revolution. There was a revolution that over through The Czarist government. The last czar was Czar Nicholas. For awhile there was a government that was appointed by the rebel leaders but The Bolsheviks gained power and in 1917 took over the country which was led by The Communist/Bolshevik Party. Russia also became The Soviet Union.
Communism began with a better life for the citizens of The Soviet Union but The Politburo started to thirst for more power and tried to wrench more freedoms from the people. The most well known despot was Josef Stalin. Communist forms of government became dictatorships. People were rewarded for snitching on their neighbors and even their own families. People lost their freedom of worship, to be exposed to alternate ideas(government censoring all media forms),and to be able to have meaningful elections. Communism be came a bastardization of Socialism!
The cornerstone of any GOOD GOVERNMENT should be that any bill passed or any governmental action should this action work for THE COMMON GOOD! The welfare of anyone living in any particular country should be considered before taking any action. Capitalism is greedism! It posits that the only goal is to make as much money as you can and any way you can! Too hell with ethics! Too Hell if you trample over people! You must worship at The god of $$$MONEY!!!
Socialism would be better for The USA. Freedom of Ideas needn't be sacrificed either! The government would run public transit, provide health care for all, and provide up to BA level degrees for all it's citizens in public universities. All citizens would pay 10% more taxes but we would get more bang for our bucks. The government would have factories to make whatever supplies the government needs. All employees would receive a wage where they would live comfortable lives. The USA should be ashamed of having homeless people and vagabonds hopping freight trains! Under Socialism there could be 90% employment, There could be gathering up the homeless and vagabonds cleaning them up, dealing with any psychological problems they have and training and placement in the government factories I spoke of before. Education should be mandatory! No dropping out allowed! We should raise a country of intellectuals. We need to be the best to do the best! The government could take away products like Alcoholic Beverages, Tobacco Products, and eliminate recreational drugs so our citizens would be healthy and happy. Also eliminate mandatory retirement, we can retire in the grave. We still could take sabbaticals though. Working on a paying job keeps your mind active and your attitude youthful!
There would still be private sector jobs and employment opportunities but there would have to be standards of how much profit would be allowed, employment of qualified people, and job placement offices so all people have a chance and no favoritism. This would be a much better USA. The COMMMEN GOOD would be flowing all over the USA!