Is faith in Socialism foolish?

Take a look at those most truly socialist countries in the world, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Canada, Sweden and Norway.

For the seventh consecutive year, Norway topped the list as the most prosperous country in the world.
It scored the highest in many variables including "trust in others," "satisfaction with freedom of choice," "civil liberty and free choice" and "satisfaction with standard of living." Denmark and Sweden came third and fifth, Canada in sixth place and the Netherlands in eighth.

When compared to that bastion of Capitalism, the USA, if you lived in Norway today you would be;
50.68% less likely to be unemployed - have 26.99% more free time - be 89.26% less likely to be in prison - be 76.32% less likely to be murdered - live 2.04 years longer - make 4.92% more money - be 83.33% less likely to have HIV/AIDS and be 59.81% less likely to die in infancy

In Norway, poverty is defined as households with income below 50 per cent of the national median. Of the children of Norway, 3.4 percent of children live below 50 percent of the poverty level, 1.6 percent of the children live below 40 percent of the poverty level and 7.5 percent live 60 percent below the poverty level.

In the US 16 million children in the United States – 22% of all children – live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level,

You can see the same when you compare those things that matter with any of those socialist countries above, when compared to the USA. I call this a political ideology, a long way from foolish in what really makes a country great.

No, not foolish, as long as you keep it reasonable. Socialism in small doses is a necessary and good thing.

Pure socialism, however, only works on paper. In its simplest definition, socialism means the government (elected or self proclaimed) owns absolutely everything and everyone with a job works for the government. The government controls as much as possible, all for the common good, and no individual deserves more than everyone else. The official socialist motto is "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". That means a garbage man or janitor is paid as much as a brain surgeon or supreme court judge.

It only works on paper because human beings are, by nature, a little greedy. As soon as one person decides they should be paid more than everyone else, for whatever reason, socialism dies that very minute. One of the chief ideals of socialism is that everyone is expected to work as hard as they can, and no one person is worth more than anyone else.

That's pretty foolish, in fact it's completely impossible. Sooner or later someone will always insist that they're worth more than someone else, it's just a fact of life.

Little bits of socialism here and there, however, are a good thing. I live in Canada, which is considered a socialist-heavy country, and we're not socialists up here. We have a free market economy that relies on the principles of capitalism to grow, our government owns very few businesses, and individuals / businesses are allowed to earn as much as they can. Our main socialist operations are government funded health care, and our welfare system.

No. Socialism makes for a healthy economy, which is why we mixed some of those aspects into our own. The problem is not with the idea, but the practice. The system is easily manipulable, like any political/economical platform. The screwed up aspects have more to do with the power it gives people than the ideas themselves; however, Socialism is never the same in practice as it is on paper. Basically, corruption exists everywhere and no idea is powerful enough to stop that. It was nice of Marx to look out for his countrymen though.

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