What is "socialism"? - An attempt to clear up myths/misconceptions

[Leadified]

RolStoppable said:

Leadified said:

The advantage of capitalism right now is the much longer phase of development it has experienced over socialism. There will probably be many more failures in socialism before it becomes successful.

In some sense, both the mainstream "left and right" are reactionary in their solutions, both digging up economic theories from the past in order to try to solve the problems of today. That's really the challenge with social democracy right now. Governments are becoming bloated, people are losing faith in the government and media, we're seeing the rise of radical ideologies again and there's a lack of solutions. The rise of groups like the alt-right I think helps to illustrate that we are leaving an era of stability and into one of crisis.

Will the system be able to offer new concessions or will it snap? Who knows.

I don't think there's a lack of solutions, rather there is a lack of willingness to employ solutions. A lot of people go into politics to become public faces and rise up in the ranks, and since they want to stay in the game, they'll do whatever it takes to stay. That usually means to give in to corporations because otherwise they'll dig up dirt to destroy politicians on a personal level. The result is that it's common that the strictness of laws becomes more relaxed, that new laws get postponed indefinitely or that new laws are only token gestures because they have easy loopholes.

Fair point there.