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Originally Posted by KOD
You sound like the textbook-thumping, lectern-leaning student of Marxism. The only problem with your view is that it's never been the case throughout history. China, the Soviet Union, and Cuba all require(d) fascist enforcement to keep the masses from straying from the mandates of the centrally directed social system. Those societies only remain "peaceful" through the strength of government.
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A society in which peace is imposed can't be peaceful because the imposition itself is an act of violence. Prisoners are not at peace with anybody.
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Socialism by its basic nature requires the productive members of society to surrender much of their gains to the less productive and needy. Without forced compliance, most of the productive would refuse to part with the fruits of their labor, just as the rich in America constantly fight and connive to avoid the fairness of progressive taxation and seizure.
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That's only if you accept everything that the wealthiest people tell you about capitalism and other economic systems in relation to it, all at face value. You're equating wealth with productivity, which is one of the core failings of capitalism, at least as a system of economic meritocracy. Right now, the productive people (by which I mean LABOR)
are parting with the fruits of those labors.
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Can you imagine what a mess Social Security, Medicare, or Socialized Healthcare would be if they were left up to personal freedom of choice?
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Yes.