@XShynobiX Only capitalism respects YOUR decisions. It requires that *no one* (not a government nor a neighbor) take your Life, Liberty, or Property & that you be free to pursue your form of Happiness.
Many people look at the US & think "that's Capitalism|, with all its rich people using laws to get richer." The US is a MIX of capitalism & gov't controls (e.e. statism, including socialist bureaucracies). Judges & Politicians WRONGLY do favors & accept bribes to give some a gov't advantage.
@XShynobiX Capitalism depends on trading values: when I have developed skills & knowledge to produce some or service, I can produce them more or more cheaply than others. Similarly, others who want them, perhaps produce something different that *I* want. When we trade, we BOTH benefit by passing on something that is not so immediately important to us, and getting something more important in its place. No robbery, no government law (socialism, communism, fascism) FORCING such decisions.
@XShynobiX Whether Nazi/Socialist, or Communist, the differences are trivial:
concentration camps vs gulags,
extermination camps vs deliberate mass starvation (30 million in the Ukraine alone),
S.S. Police killing & torturing vs KGB killing & torturing,
sacrifice for the Aryan Race vs sacrifice for the Russian people.
XShynobiX, why side with an ideology (pursued by Democrats) that undercuts the rights & freedoms that advanced the lives of U.S. *citizens* more than *any* other system?
@XShynobiX The main issues at stake, until Hitler (personally not elected, but leader of the Nazis) became Chancellor boiled down to a Leftist "Turf War" between the Nazis and the (Bolshevik influenced) German Communist Party. Both were vehemently collectivist, with the Nazis adding Fascism (another form of collectivism) and racism (a tribal collectivism) into their platform, that appealed to the what the Communists disparagingly called the "lumpenproletariat.".
@XShynobiX It's tempting to scorn you for that last remark —so many people form 'definite' opinions without a clue as to the full implications of their opinion, nor of the scattered & incomplete factual basis they counting on. Often, both are easy to properly understand &/or learn . . . yet some live their entire lives not *learning* much at all.
It takes 60 secs to see that Nazism (Nationalsozialismus) is National Socialism. As I said above, Socialism & Communism are basically identical.
@RnBramwell 3 above is on.
XShynobiX 7 months ago
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Hi XS. Are you asking
—what country is best, or
—what is the best source of information about Capitalism, or
—whether some MIX of Capitalism and another system is best?
"e.e." was a typo, it should have been "i.e." which stands for _id est_ meaning "that is".
RnBramwell 7 months ago
@RnBramwell So what do you think is best?
XShynobiX 7 months ago
@XShynobiX Only capitalism respects YOUR decisions. It requires that *no one* (not a government nor a neighbor) take your Life, Liberty, or Property & that you be free to pursue your form of Happiness.
Many people look at the US & think "that's Capitalism|, with all its rich people using laws to get richer." The US is a MIX of capitalism & gov't controls (e.e. statism, including socialist bureaucracies). Judges & Politicians WRONGLY do favors & accept bribes to give some a gov't advantage.
RnBramwell 7 months ago
@XShynobiX Capitalism depends on trading values: when I have developed skills & knowledge to produce some or service, I can produce them more or more cheaply than others. Similarly, others who want them, perhaps produce something different that *I* want. When we trade, we BOTH benefit by passing on something that is not so immediately important to us, and getting something more important in its place. No robbery, no government law (socialism, communism, fascism) FORCING such decisions.
RnBramwell 7 months ago
@RnBramwell Thank you for introducing to me Captilist, I shall study now, Thanks!
XShynobiX 7 months ago
@XShynobiX Whether Nazi/Socialist, or Communist, the differences are trivial:
concentration camps vs gulags,
extermination camps vs deliberate mass starvation (30 million in the Ukraine alone),
S.S. Police killing & torturing vs KGB killing & torturing,
sacrifice for the Aryan Race vs sacrifice for the Russian people.
XShynobiX, why side with an ideology (pursued by Democrats) that undercuts the rights & freedoms that advanced the lives of U.S. *citizens* more than *any* other system?
RnBramwell 7 months ago
@RnBramwell Well he mighten make action like a Communist, but The Nazi was never Communist
XShynobiX 7 months ago
@XShynobiX The main issues at stake, until Hitler (personally not elected, but leader of the Nazis) became Chancellor boiled down to a Leftist "Turf War" between the Nazis and the (Bolshevik influenced) German Communist Party. Both were vehemently collectivist, with the Nazis adding Fascism (another form of collectivism) and racism (a tribal collectivism) into their platform, that appealed to the what the Communists disparagingly called the "lumpenproletariat.".
RnBramwell 7 months ago
@XShynobiX It's tempting to scorn you for that last remark —so many people form 'definite' opinions without a clue as to the full implications of their opinion, nor of the scattered & incomplete factual basis they counting on. Often, both are easy to properly understand &/or learn . . . yet some live their entire lives not *learning* much at all.
It takes 60 secs to see that Nazism (Nationalsozialismus) is National Socialism. As I said above, Socialism & Communism are basically identical.
RnBramwell 7 months ago