Failure of Socialism

[MikePal]

Interesting read...they studied Marxist-Socialism by traveling, seeing and living it, instead of studying it from a book. In conclusion, it fails in every case.

As the Trudeau Liberals continue to be rightly criticized by conservatives for leading Canada into socialism, an American professor who was once a Marxist now says after travelling the globe that socialism doesn’t work.

After visiting more than 110 countries to pursue various forms of research, notably cultural anthropology, Jack Stauder described his conversion from Marxism as a “process of disillusionment.”

“I gradually became disenchanted with Marxism by visiting many of the countries that had tried to shape their societies to conform to its doctrines. I was disillusioned by the realities I saw in … socialist countries — the USSR, Eastern Europe, China, Cuba, etc,” the University of Massachusetts professor told The College Fix newspaper via email.

“I came to recognize that socialism doesn’t work, and that its ‘revolutionary’ imposition inevitably leads to cruelty, injustice and the loss of freedom,” he said.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau obviously needs to travel more because his PM father — an admirer of China going back to Mao, and friend of Cuba’s Fidel Castro — was more Marxist in his political thinking than a democrat. “I could see the same pattern in the many failed left-wing revolutions of Latin America and elsewhere,” said Stauder. “By combining actual travel with the historical study of socialism and revolution, I succeeded in disabusing myself of the utopian notions that fatally attract people to leftist ideas.

According to Curta, one of the world’s most distinguished scholars in medieval history and archaeology, the difference between ideas and fact is lost on leftist scholars, a breed that seems to fill the teaching halls of universities in the U.S. and Canada.

https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...demics-love-it

[Bushwhacker]

Amen.

It amazes me how many people still think these utopias are possible.

[Birdbuff]

Yes ultimately greed gets in the way of any ideology.

[NJohnson]

We are just waiting for the masses to wake up and freeloaders to start taking care of themselves instead of having a government do it for them.

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[MarkB]

Of course they don't work ... for two reasons ... you need an actual income generator to pay for social services ... and that only happens when you motivate people to generate income.
Second, humans are generally corrupt, and those in charge will not actually practice communism ... it turns quickly into a dictatorship ... are there even any examples of an ideal communism regiment in history, or are they effectively all dictatorships?

[mosquito]

Well we can be pretty sure that won't get any regard in the halls of the media and Liberal/NDP/Green seats of parliament. They are too busy giving money out to friends and the "entitled" that can work to pay attention to the disabled or seniors or those in actual need that can't work.

[Gilroy]

Geez I never heard of supporters of the defeated party to not accept their CERB cheques and EI and any other allowances they got from the winning party during the COVID period. Silly me, it must only have been "those other guys" cashing in.

[NJohnson]

Geez I never heard of supporters of the defeated party to not accept their CERB cheques and EI and any other allowances they got from the winning party during the COVID period. Silly me, it must only have been "those other guys" cashing in.

So much fail in your post. You must have been heavily foaming at your mouth typing that post!
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[mosquito]

So much fail in your post. You must have been heavily foaming at your mouth typing that post!
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His who psyche revolves around Trudeau is always right and Harper was always wrong and the Libs won... even if they got about 4 times the population of North Bay less in votes than the Conservatives

[Gilroy]

160 seats, three more than 2019 that's all that counts. Defeated party two less seats than 2019.