| Aeolus451 said: That's false and frankly naive. A socialist people couldn't exist without a governing body therefore it would remain a state. It would have to become more authoritarian over time to keep control like Venezuela. Socialism goes against human nature so people are gonna fight it. Besides there's other countries comprised of different thinking people with militaries. |
Without defending what the government of Venezuela has become, I take exception to the claim that socialist ideas are averse to human nature. There is no socio-economic system of organization more traditional to our species than democratic socialism.
In fact, even the most complex, capitalistic societies often still instinctively revert back to socialistic principles when in real need. For example, when a natural disaster strikes and yields a severe shortage of basic necessities like food, clean drinking water, and clothing, any given society is prone to respond by imposing a system of rationing: the distribution of those sorts of basic resources according to need rather than according to exchange value. Why? Why not let the free market work its magic and solve these sorts of serious problems on its own? Because deep down, we know better. We instinctively know that the result would be more loss of life.
A capitalist economic system is better at certain things than a socialist one is. Solving the most basic human problems, like a severe shortage of basic resources, though, isn't one of them. Capitalism can produce things more efficiently. It distributes those things less efficiently though. You see what I'm getting at here?
