Democracy to Socialism?

Question

Who agrees that modern liberal ideas, with time, could turn the U.S. into a Socialist State?

I,E,- Gun control, g*y rights, Free Medicare?

Answer 1

I do know this Father-state is Communism and Communism is pure evil. government should not get involve in those matters that concern only the people nether should give free nothing.

Answer 2

Political means can create state-capitalism, but they *cannot* create real socialism. State capitalism can get worse and worse, e.g. n**i Germany.

Despite all the social-democratic claims, a socialist state is an oxymoron. A socialist community, based on voluntary means, to the exclusion of political ones, is the only way.

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"Socialism is the belief that the next important step in progress is a change in man’s environment of an economic character that shall include the abolition of every privilege whereby the holder of wealth acquires an anti-social power to compel tribute." - Ben Tucker

http://fair-use.org/benjamin-tucker/inst...

For many supporters of socialism, "socialism" means that the workers control the means of production, while "capitalism" means another class controls the means of production.

Historically, supporters of socialism have varied from opponents of the state (like Proudhon or Bakunin) to supporters of it (like Engels), as well as from supporters of completely free markets (like Proudhon or Tucker) to supporters of planned economies (like Marx) to supporters of free access to common means of production (like Kropotkin).

http://porkupineblog.blogspot.com/2006/0...

Answer 3

Giving a gun?  to a person who more than likely has a therapist! is not so smart, why would you not have gun control? Free medical care should be a right of everyone, not just the poor and downtrodden, and as for g*y rights if they leave me alone I leave them alone, maybe being a socialist state may help the "good ol U S of A" towards getting its head out of its **** and realising that it does not fare all that well anymore. It is time for a big change in thinking. For what it is worth the United States is pretty messed up. I am an Aussie who lives in China, -  things get done here without any fuss or debate, they just get done, We all could learn a thing or two from the Chinese. Regardless of communist/socialist  government or not .

Answer 4

g*y rights has nothing to do with socialism.  Neither does gun control.   That tells me that you don't know what socialism is.

You should go look that up.  It'll help you later.

Answer 5

in a heartbeat !

Answer 6

There do seem to be those who adhere to  the "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" kind of thinking.  It's interesting times to say the least.

Answer 7

gun control, free rights and medicare have nothing to do with socialism.

Answer 8

I agree, altough Socialism is an ecomomic systym rather than a government, most countries under Socialism seem to have ended up as totaltalian dictaterships, that what scares me