Groundking said: Socialism and Marxists (Marx btw, was a moron with money, hence where all his stupid ideas came from) ideologies has lead to obscene numbers of people killed in the past 100 years. I really don't see how anybody can support any idea that a big government is a good idea, as government ends up corrupt, war-mongering and is immoral with its initiation of force on the populace (Taxes, making kids go to school, obscene laws like the drug laws etc.). I'm pretty strongly right wing, people should be free to do what they want as long as what they do isn't violent against other people (the exception to this is Boxers/MMA fighters/Martial Artists etc, as they are willing to get into violent situations, either for entertainment, personal pride or whatever). The government should have no say in schools and hospitals, taxes should be minimal, and only enough to sustain a police force, fireservice and army sufficient enough to protect the country, NOT to go invading other countries. Government in it's essence should really be a regulatory body who decides, on advice from scientists, mininum standards for pollution/food quality/ etc, and set sensible laws, such as killing somebody should lead to jail, and whatnot. Other than that the government needs to fuck off out of our lives, surrender the control of money, and thus interest rates, which is where the majority of economic strife has come from for the past few decades and let people get on with life. If somebody wants to lose their minds on drugs just let them ffs. |
Marx has one of the most coherent and worked-out social and economic theories there is that clearly analizes the problems in a capitalist society and the way by which such a society economically operates. Given, Marx never formulated a clear awnser to this problem, that has been often left to other thinkers/statemen like Lenin (to name one of the more positive ones), sometimes with horrible effects. But these effects were never Marx' fault. If anything, Marx' theories saved a lot more people from horrible conditions that the number of people so-called communist regimes killed. Marx' theories are still very relevant and applicable.
On the other hand, the objectivist, libertarian views of someone like Ayn Rand just don't work, they inevitably lead to abuse, formation of huge monopolies, needless deaths due to heavy deregulation, egotism and so on. Ayn Rand also betrayed a system that allowed her to study and gain the knowledge needed to write filth like 'Atlas Shrugged' in the first place.