...Care Act During the past 5 years we have heard a great deal of rhetoric regarding socialism and healthcare as a result of the passing of the Affordable Care Act, particularly in how ACA compares to socialized medicine in England and the UK. The concerns of the people regarding socialism are important as our country is founded on capitalist principals, and to change those principals requires a complete shift in our thinking. A close look at the systems in question reveals important aspects for consideration; indeed it is important to be aware of the potential future of the ACA. While the English National Healthcare System and the Affordable Care Act have similarities, funding and administrative differences mean that while the ACA could become socialized, it does not currently fit that label. The primary concern of the American people concerning the ACA is, understandably, how this system will fit into the capitalist system that we are so very proud of and whether it will be the start of our nation moving toward complete socialism. Merriam-Webster defines socialism as “any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods”. In other words, the state controls business and commerce directly rather than through governmental regulations. Social services such as Medicare are a form of socialism in that they are administered directly by the government...
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...with its demand for productivity development, people are going to overthrow that system and introduce a new one suitable to current economic situation. In the case of Europe, when history rolled its wheel to 1500’s, such a situation applied. In this century, alongside the great discovery, the activities of Europeans was suddenly not confined to the continent and the neighboring waters, but reached great remote oceans and any corners of the world with their vessels and compasses. Trade and commerce grew exponentially as several small nations like Spain, Portugal, and later Holland became masters of the sea and the route of their vessels reached more and more land and the people on it. The great discovery changed, to a great extent, the people’s outlook on the world and the development of trade and commerce facilitated by this discovery increased substantially the riches of European countries and their people, propelling the economic development to such a point that the old social structure became compatible no more. On the other hand, the Renaissance emancipated people’s mind and facilitated the spread of ideas as freedom, equality and democracy which are essential to the founding of modern society. If the great discovery updated people’s physical outlook on the world, the Renaissance transformed their conception upon society and human beings. They became more conscious of the position they were in and unsatisfied with it, because it was not fair and now they knew it and wanted...
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...While reading about “process philosophy” I have read about how communism and socialism exist also about the different form of socialism. How both forms of socialism oppose communism. I paid particular attention to the Fabian form of socialism the most because as the text says that it has been in place here since the 1930s. Fabian socialism took over the Democratic Party and in doing so the United States has experienced socialism since then. It’s easy to look back just during my life time, which is just since the 1980s to see how socialism as effected this country. With the current administration the United States has today we see socialism in full force, with forced health care, welfare programs and unemployment programs to mention a few. I am going to focus my on how some facet process philosophy on the party platform of the Democratic Party and education. When looking at the Democratic Party it’s easy to see how they facet process philosophy with it beginning in the 1930s when the Fabian socialist took over the party (Prevailing World Views Martin 2006). During the thirties the United States was suffering through the Great Depression, which led to a high unemployment rate and economic collapse. During that time we elect a president who in my view was a socialist who brings out economic reform, social security and the promise a new life. The people of the country at that point were eager to get back to work and to have money back in their pockets were about the promises made...
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...Unfortunately our hero lived in a Socialist society and he ended up fading into the background. Socialism, as defined by the Merriam Webster online dictionary, is "any way of organising a society in which the government takes control of major industries and distributes goods equally." Keep this in mind it will be important...
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...Western Europe, the rapid increase in wage labor influenced the emergence of new political forces that, proclaimed the equality of all people, and sought dramatic social and political change. One of the most powerful results of the growing uneasiness with the condition of workers was the birth of the movement known as socialism. In the 19th century Europe, socialism focused on worker equality, equitable pay scales and, perhaps most important, humane living and working conditions. Over time, European socialism became politicized, evolving into mass party movements. Utopian socialists, most of whom were French, critiqued the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution. The name “utopian” reflects their dreams of creating a perfectly harmonious way of life. Utopian Socialism is defined as socialism based on a belief that social ownership of the means of production can be achieved by voluntary and peaceful surrender of their holdings by propertied groups . This philosophy emphasized their determination to put forward demands for political and social reform. Utopian socialism was the first form of socialism to come about as well as one of the biggest branches of socialism in the 1800s. They got their name because of their belief in an ideal and perfect world that could...
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...government, to find freedom, to make their fortune. We have to first understand what made America great before we can even think about influencing the rest of the world. Some candidates for President like Hillary Clinton and Sen. Marco Rubio think we should spread American style-freedom and democracy around the world. But is hasn’t worked out so well. In Hillary’s war in Libya the so-called freedom fighters won, but now chaos and jihadists rule. Our ambassador was assassinated and now ISIS is a serious threat. In Iraq, over...
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...Edberg Espinoza Writing Studies II Lindsey Wilson College 5/1/2015 Socialism in Cuba and Venezuela The Socialist ideology policy that titles those philosophies and political actions that protect an economic and political system founded on the organization of production systems and social control by an organized bottom-up workers' state, economic and political sectors to evade that a minority of citizens owning the means of to exercise the abuse of a majority that does not possess the means of production is enforced to sell their labor in exchange for a salary. This socialist ideology has been enforced in two countries for several years; Cuba and Venezuela, but this has not been solved yet, and it’s a topic that everybody should knew something. I will start with Cuba and then Venezuela, and then I will compare them so the reader can know the similarities between them. The first intentions to implement socialism in Cuba come with Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara and his attempts to overthrow the dictatorship of then-President Fulgencio Batista, the dictatorial president was unconditional ally of the United States . They had already had approaches with communist leaders especially from Mexico, there was brewing a plan for the dissemination of communist ideas and policies, especially at the head of Leon Trotsky. In the Cuban revolution that culminated in Batista fled and the establishment of Fidel Castro in power in 1959, who in four years as the island proclaimed socialist...
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...Capitalism vs. socialism: the great debate revislted October 11 Civics CHV2D1-02 Capitalism versus socialism : the great debate revislted Page1 -debate between two isms, soicalism and capitalism are far from over. -International agencies porvide hard evidenceto discuss these 2 isms -comparisons between before and after the important events of capitalism in Europe and comparison of excommunist countries provide us with enough fact which provides us with definate conclusions -Under communism ->economic decisons/property owned by national/publicly -over the past 15 years of the transition to capitalism-> basic industries taken over by European/Us corporations and by mafia billionaires or have been shut down -In bulgaria, Rumania and some other countries, their average capita growth over the past 15 years -> far below compared to 15 years under communism. -In Armenia, the number of scientific researchers -> 20000 to 5000 in 5 years(1990-1995) Page2 -By the mid 1990s, over 50% of population lived in poverty,homelessness in Russia(Capitalist). Economy = privatized ->taken over by russian gangsters (which was led by billinaire). -the transition to capitalism in russia led to over 15million premature deaths (which would not have happened if they remained as socialism). -intro of capitalism has weaken the system of public health ->caused death/ infectious disease -The big contributor to the AIDS ->russian criminal gangs (trade in heroin and...
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...Why Socialism Sucks Brandon Smith Alexander Tokarev 4/26/2013 We live in a world in where different ideologies take over the minds of individuals throughout the world. We have different mindsets which are the products of individuals and the situation in which they have been raised over the course of their life. With these ideologies some are conjured up in the minds of people with immense power over the people of their nation. Governments take the form of different types. There are many different types; Capitalism, Communism, Totalitarianism, Oligarchy, Socialism, Democracy, and even Social Democracy. However I write about only one today…Socialism. I will be taking various examples from Milton Friedman’s The Road to Serfdom. In Milton’s first chapter “The Abandoned Road” he speaks of the history of what we have been founded upon. Individualism speaks to our very core, with the development of Socialism we have been straying too far from what we know, what works. In chapter two, “The Great Utopia”, he speaks about how the French writers who laid the foundations of Socialism call for the control of the people through a strict dictatorship. This dictatorship that would take place will inevitably call for the end of all revolutions of the people so that the government may put its plans into action. Democracy and Socialism have one thing in common: equality. However with Democracy it calls for equality in liberty and freedom whereas Socialism calls for equality through strict...
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...Contrast Capitalism & Socialism Capitalism and Socialism both have their differences and their similarities. Capitalism is known to come from socialists from the mid-nineteenth century and is also known as Pure Capitalism which is another name for Laissez-Faire. The United States, Canada, and Great Britain are countries whose economies are driven by the principles of Capitalism. The vital features for Capitalism is private ownership, for example you own your own property such as housing and land. The second is market competition which means competing with one another, third is the pursuit of profit, which in this case can mean individuals selling items for more than what they are worth and what they paid for themselves . Capitalism has been criticized for leading to social inequality. Another is that the tiny top layer wields vast political power. Capitalists believe that he only purpose of a government is to protect its citizens from force or fraud. In a capitalist society all people can start any kind of business they want. From a purely economic view a capitalist is a person who buys in order to sell for profit. Socialism is quite different compared to capitalism, almost like an exact opposite Instead of the ownership of private property, the government plays a large role where society owns social property such as banks and factories. Socialism is a term for political...
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...I choose this source from the Library of Congress because it represents in the era of the story for Harrison Bergeron, this type of subject in the reading describes more about socialism. Socialism developed as a political movement towards ideology in the eighteenth and nineteenth century,its reaction towards society was lead to industrial injustice and labor exploitation. Karl Marx established and defines the great definition of modern theory of socialism, Marx advocated a revolution towards equality for the working class which lead into control the poor citizen as in dictatorship.Socialism is the meaning of the word that has been also used for political power, both nationalist socialism in Germany under Hitler and the Soviet style developed by Lenin....
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...（1） In 1945, just after World War II, the alliance between the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union ended. An intense rivalry between communist and non-communist nations led to the Cold War. It's called the Cold War because it never led to armed or "hot" conflict. At the end of World War II, at the Yalta Conference, Germany was divided into four occupied zones controlled by Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Berlin was also divided into four sections. Lack of a mutual agreement on German re-unification was a important background of the Cold War. And on March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill, gave his "iron curtain" speech while at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, which marked the start of the Cold War. The cold war did not end until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. During this period, the United States and the USSR confronted each other in politics, economy, ideology, and so on. And they nearly divided this world into two camps, socialist camp and capitalist camp, what made the conflict on ideology especially sharp. Every incident in the world could not happened without reasons, and the original cause may happened quite long ago. So there are long term causes and short causes of the Cold War. One of the short term causes is that the US President had a personal dislike of the Soviet leader Josef Stalin. At the Potsdam Conference starting in late July 1945, serious differences emerged over the future development of Germany and...
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...Name: Raghda Mostafa Hassan El-asra ID: 115743 Gamal Abdel Nasser is an Arabic leader not only an Egyptian leader who made a lot of achievements for Egypt, the Middle East and Africa. Nasser was an important figure in the recent history of Egypt and had a great role in 23 July revolution; he was one of the leaders of the free officers’ movement. Gamal Adel Nasser was a brave solider who fought against Israel. Nasser was a significant leader who had revolutionary ideas that supported the free officers’ movement. Nasser was the most popular Arabic leader in his era and had a big role in all Arabs’ revolutions and also made an Arabian nationalism, which included a short period of unity between Egypt and Syria (The painful presidency of Egypt's Nasser, 1969). Nasser also encouraged a number of revolutions in the Arab countries and a number of other countries. Nasser as a magnificent leader had an affective role in the political and social life during his judgment and after his death. (Nowaira, 2010) In July 26 1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser took a great political decision. Nasser announced nationalizing the Suez Canal Company SAE to finance the Aswan high dam after the World Bank refused to finance the construction of the high dam. Nasser took that decision several years before the end of Britain’s contract of benefiting from the canal, which led to tension and escalation and bring hostility to Egypt. Nasser also increased...
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...According to Hitler, the broad purpose of human existence is to preserve the fundamental principles of Nature, such that a human from a superior level cannot mate with another human from a biologically lower level. Additionally, he provided an example of how the product of such mating would produce the miserable life for the child because he cannot be with a person of a higher status, or even worse, to be with a lower individual. For Nature, it’s worse to blend the higher races with lower ones, because it would taint her work of creating high developments. In other words, the interaction of the distinct statuses would contaminate the blood for human progress by causing the collapse of great civilizations. As a result, Hitler states that the specific human who created the great culture should preserve his bloodline in order to protect it. The human would need to fight and abide to these laws of race for human progress. 2. What, in Hitler’s view, are the basic dissimilarities between Aryans and Jews?...
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...to this day. The Democratic Party’s platform have been impacted by the process philosophy of Fabian Socialism. This is also known as Democratic Socialism. The Fabian Socialism creation was credited to British economists Sidney and Beatrice Webb, in 1883. According to Ferdon, Fabian Socialism is similar to Marxism and almost every point. The only different is their change in violent tactics. Fabian Socialism promatoe “a more peacefull, gradual, and incremental approach to encomic change through voting, legislation, the courts, and the public education system, as well as organized industrial labor”. (Ferdon 2014) Fabian Sociamlisms was introduced into the United states first is 1886. This is when the American Federation of labor was created. In 1905 the intercollegiate socialist society was formed. This is only a few ways Fabian Socialism was promoted in the United States. This all goes with the Fabian Socialism views on, labor, education, voting, and the courts. The current Democratic Party platform has been impacted by the process philosophy of Fabian Socialism. The Platform has views that are the same views of the Fabian Socialists. If you look at the views on economic change through voting, legislation, the courts, and the public education system, you will better understand how they are similar. The current Democratic Party platform is the based solely on the Fabian Socialism philosophy. I will explain this by starting with voting. The Fabian Socialists wanted encomic change...
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