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I am currently in a debate with a member of the Zeitgiest movement (pretty stubborn people with little knowledge or care about economics) and he tells me that the Soviet Union was not an exmple of an RBE. Was it an RBE? If so, why? Oh and feel free to come help me debate against these guys. It is kinda...
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Public Private Trust GeMiJa copyright 2008 A Public Private Trust originates through a variation of state capitalism where shares of stock from corporations are exchanged for state subsidies . However, unlike state capitalism the shares acquired through the exchange are relinquished by the state into...
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@Anarcho : "Will someone who's productivity is many times greater then someone else's recieve the same salary as the much less productive person(s)?" Of course, why would a gold seeker would be paid more than a forester? Because gold is more expansive than wood you think? And what about...
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Hi everyone, I am new to the Mises community and was a former leftist and supporter of socialism in Canada until around age 23 when I got hit over the head with real life enough to realize what an abysmal failure socialism is and realized that all of the material prosperity that I enjoy has come from...
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When considering capitalist and communist ideology which seem to be either end of the political and economics spectrum and trying to assess which one is "better", i dont think people really consider the important issue of population. In an area of land where there is very few people (im thinking...
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Of the most recent babble I have taken part in the other person spewed this statement, "Under Communism, there is no state". I've debated people many times when communism is brought up, and when the Soviet Union was brought up, whether or not it's a State. I've even heard people...
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In many ways, however, the soviet union was financed and otherwise supported by various american businesses and intellectuals. the progressive state in america, during the first world war, was in many ways a direct inspiration for the various socialist revolutionary movements.
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I would be interested in seeing a post, blog, website, etc that is devoted to defining political terms. I was at a Tea Party where I saw signs calling Obama a communist, a socialist, and a fascist. Which sign was correct? All three? What about Bush, what would we classify him as? I believe there are...
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We've all read, I'm sure, the characterization of Communism - specifically Marxian Communism - as driven by envy. The trouble with that characterization, though, is that it's at odds with the way the Cold War mainstream conceptualized Soviet expansionism back in the old Cold War days. Remember...
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Humans, like other primates, are communal. Our ancestors spent almost all of their evolutionary history as humans living in small groups of interdependent individuals. At the same time, tribes were in competition for each other for natural resources: foraging grounds, hunting grounds, agricultural lands...