Lana wrote:If I understand you (it's always difficult), you think we (citizens of my ex country) didn't have a freedom? Choice to choose? Our people OWNED our industry for more than 40 years (in Tito's time), not State, or private capital, but workers, is that enough freedom for you?
Were you free to alter the product as you see fit? Were you free to sell your share of the industry? Did you receive an equal share of the profits from that industry? The likely answer to all of these questions is No.
Socialist/Communist Nations run this ploy of ownership by the people, but in reality the government ran the industries and the nation was likely a dictatorship. Take a look at the Soviet Union (USSR), specifically during the reign of Stalin. The government of the people ran the industries. The government of the people was Stalin. The government that ran the country made all the money, and the average worker ran nothing and got next to nothing. They had no say. They received X from the government while the government made infinitely more. The worker had no freedom to pick the job of his choice, the workers didn't have the freedom to make the product as they saw fit. The worker couldn't speak out against the government. Everything was decided by the Soviet Bureaucracy, the worker who supposed had an equal share had no share.
If communism and socialism are so great and work so well, why did the USSR collapse? Why did the people rise up? Why has China, a communist dictatorship, moved towards capitalism. The reason is because socialism and communism doesn't work.
A great example of the failures of socialism occurred during the colonization of the Americas. For most of the early colonial settlement farming was done socially, everyone shared the benefits and the duties of the farm. It failed to work resulting in insufficient food supplies for winter because people found they didn't have to do their equal share and still reaped the benefits of others. An Englishman by the name of John Smith pioneered the concept of private ownership and the ideas of "If you don't work, you don't eat." in the new world. His leadership saved the English colonies, specifically at Jamestown, from complete collapse. Socialism would have destroyed the American colonies, and the Jewel of Freedom in this world would likely not be here today if it wasn't for capitalistic and democratic ideas.
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