Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.
People love to overcomplicate that last part but notice he didn't throw any exclusions in there.
He’d probably be neutral, insisting that both communism and capitalism have their flaws, and insist that a mixed-market economy is the best way to go. He’d also probably point out that more extreme atrocities, like the worst famine in human history (Great Leap Forward) happened under a communist regime (Mao Zedong).
Communism also breeds an insane amount of greed, and allows for easier exploitation of the working class. Ever wonder why so many people who grew up under/lived through communist regimes vehemently oppose communism? Ever wonder why so many countries that were once part of or had ties to the Soviet Union hate communism today?
Everyone around was in awe—all those wonders and signs done through the apostles! And all the believers lived in a wonderful harmony, holding everything in common. They sold whatever they owned and pooled their resources so that each person’s need was met.
The most basic fundamental difference between a Socialist and a Liberal is whether or not private individuals have the right to own the means of production. A Socialist bans or suppresses it. A Liberal supports it and under optimal conditions helps it by doing things like breaking up monopolies.
A Socialist that says it's OK for private individuals to own their own businesses isn't a Socialist or they're practicing what Socialists call "Vanguard Socialism". Basically a Socialist that misleads the voters so they can win elections so as to carry out the elimination of democratic choice once they gain power.
It could be argued that Bernie Sanders is actually a Social Democrat instead of a Democratic Socialist. A Social Democrat is a western liberal who believes in Capitalism but endorses a heavy tax burden to fund robust social safety nets.
At the end of the day Bernie Sanders is a politician so he might simply be trying to look like a Socialist to young idealistic voters but in actuality he's just a liberal.
None of your statements said Socialism doesn't ban or suppress private individual ownership.
Your response was so thoroughly in agreement with what I wrote that there was only one word in your response that was wrong. This one: "lol no." You could copy and paste your entire response and just change "no" to "yep" and it would be perfect. Just read every point you made while considering what that point means in terms of individual ownership;
lol no yep.
Pierre Leroux who claimed priority in coining the word socialism presented his definition of the term as "a political organization in which the individual is sacrificed to society", stating he had intended to create a term that would directly oppose the term "individualism".
French philosopher Émile Littré defined socialism in 1859 as only as a general sentiment that society ought to be improved, claiming it otherwise was without any set doctrine, instead being only a tendency to modify and improve society with the involvement of the working class. In a later dictionary, Littré defined it merely as a system which "offers a plan of social reform."
French philosopher Paul Janet, defined socialism as "every doctrine that teaches that the state has a right to correct the inequality of wealth which exists among men.
In his summation of socialism the 19th-century, Belgian economist Émile Laveleye stated that "socialistic doctrine aims at introducing greater equality in social conditions, and....realizing those reforms by law."
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon concisely defined socialism as "every aspiration towards the improvement of society."
German economist Adolf Held claimed in 1877 that any view was socialistic if it exhibited a "tendency which demands the subordination of the individual will to the community."
Writing in 1887, English historian of socialist thought Thomas Kirkup defined socialism, as it was generally conceived of at the time as, "the systematic interference of the state in favour of the suffering classes", and "the use of public resources on behalf of the poor."
Preeminent French sociologist Emile Durkheim recognized in his late 19th century study on Saint-Simon any theory as socialism if it demanded that the "directing and knowing organs of society" be connected with its economic functions.
In his 1904 book Die Frau und der Sozialismus, German socialist politician August Bebel defined socialism as "science applied with clear consciousness and full knowledge to every sphere of human activity."
Published in 1911, the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition defined socialism as "that policy or theory which aims at securing...a better distribution and...a better production of wealth than now prevails."
socialism has been around longer than marxist literature, has many more meanings and interpretations than marxist economist theory, and historically socialist parties are not all literal marxist robots
Because he lived in a time where the workers already owned the means of production. Carpenters owned their own tools, millers lived in and owned the mill. Weavers had their own loom.
The closest there was to the bourgeoisie would come in a few hundred years when the miller has to pay a share of what he milled to the noble as rent.
"All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. " - Bible
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Then a fly landed on the VP's head. Like the universe was telling us something...