Re: Trump or Harris?
By: Neofree to Dumas Walker on Tue Aug 06 2024 03:34 pm
> America is uniqe place in the world, and the entire country is right
> leaning. Our democrats are nothing but moderates here. We don't know what
> true socialism
> is because we haven't lived through that for even 1 second.
I think any Cuban you may find in Florida may help satisfy your curiosity.
But then I happen to be a Spaniard, which underwent a fascist dictatorship with
a heavy emphasis on socialization, so I may also be of help:
In a true socialist system you are looking at a society in which exchange of goo
ds and services is reduced in order to prevent price gouging and speculation. If
you go deep into a rural area you will find the means of production are reduced
and a big number of people has to share. Maybe there is a single harvester for
the whole valley, and you are expected to help your neighbor take care of his fi
eld if you want a turn with the harvester later on.
Since exchange of goods and services is walled behind ration carts and licenses,
you may expect extreme inequalty. A rural area will be rich on food but won't h
ave anything else because trading food for other things (education, medicines) i
s hard and only allowed if it fits the Party. Cities will be rich on social serv
ices and cheap social housing but food and other essentials might run extremely
low.
Invariably, people turns to the black market in order to get the stuff the Party
does not want them to trade. Spain should erect a monument to smugglers and foo
d speculation rings because so many people owes their life to those.
I hope that helped :-P
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