Comrade Brian said:
Socialism doesn't focus on a bureaucratic planned state, many Socialists would have a planned state, but not bureaucratic, don't most socialists push for an entirely legislative government that's elected, the US president has far too many powers.
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Socialism is a planned economy on a micro-economic and macro-economic level, in order to keep such planning in existence, their must be an absolute authority getting all appropriate information, this information would have to be in the form of a paper trail, which is the very definition of a beauracracy, whether that authority is elected, comes through revolution, or assumes power through other means, it will still have to be a beauracracy which is just a step more efficient than communism and still about ten steps less efficient than capitalism.
Also communism was never really supposed to have a government, so there wouldn't be an actual republic, and many people misunderstand anarchists, most anarchists push for a communist society without a period of socialism, communists want a socialist society as transition from capitalism,
Without an organized government a society cannot grow or prosper, it's how much you will allow the organized government to control as per the social contract that sets apart political and economic theories. Too weak of a government and you get a near collapse such as the Confederal States of America which didn't work, too strong of a government and you get an implosion, such as communism or a socialist beauracracy.
p.s.capitalism IS wrong, WAS wrong, and always WILL BE.....you guessed it.....wrong
Nice play on my statement there. :roll: But the facts are not on your side, in the first 200 years of capitalism, it created the wealthiest citizen's outside of the ruling class
IN HISTORY (past),
Currently, and with few exceptions(even they trade by free market rules) the only nations that have not had to overhaul their economies completely have been capitalist ones(this is your present example), and in the future, capitalism seems to be the only system that can realistically weather the demands of time.