Reblogged on kommonsentsjane/blogkommonsents.
https://objectivismindepth.com/2016/06/14/bernie-sanders-and-the-injustice-of-democratic-socialism/
For Millennials who have been brain-washed by Bernie Sanders who has never held a real job until he was 40 years old and became a politician/socialist/communist.
Trust but verify your socialist brain-washing.
Socialism is a cancer on any country that has fallen into its grasp.
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This essay is Part 3 of a three-part series on socialism:
Bernie Sanders
In the first essay of this series, I took socialism, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, and showed why it is immoral (unjust) in theory and in its “purest” practice. Then, in the second essay, I explained why, in the real world, attempts to approach pure socialism have always resulted in oppressive, dictatorial governments with high degrees of corruption. (Again, as explained in the second essay, worker-owned cooperatives cannot generally be called “socialism.”)
In this essay, I’ll discuss partial socialism, as it presents itself in the Scandinavian countries of Europe, (like Sweden,) in the US, and in the 2016 presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders. Some people will say that pure socialism is impractical and/or inconsistent with human nature, but still think that there should be a “balanced” mixture of socialism and capitalism. Capitalism, they think, mustn’t…
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