"The biggest difference between capitalism and socialism? It's best to cite a chestnut or a more obvious phenomenon. Don’t involve Marx. I’m not familiar with him.”
I think, another person who has no higher education, does not understand democratic companies, does not understand the frontier socialist development and international relations, is poisoned by the noble capitalism in the cloak of socialism. Said, I still don’t understand the basic principles of Marx. If you don’t look at Marx, what kind of socialism do you look at? What do you think of anarchism?
After a sneer, I gave the following answer:
Capitalism is a social system based on a private economy. Its economic system is based on individuals, and it implements free competition and the survival of the fittest. A good template is to implement a democratic system in politics, with one vote for each person, enjoy theoretically equal personal political rights
and implement a hierarchical system in the economy. The richest people and those with the most production tools have the most economic power. (Pay attention to the difference between power and right. The former is used to rule others, and the latter is used to maintain oneself). For a society, the political system is based on the economic foundation, and the economy plays a fundamental role in politics. Therefore, more economic power means more political power. At this time, the economy is dominant under capitalism. Groups of people, such as entrepreneurs and financiers, can become the de facto rulers of social politics.
Therefore, capitalist democracy has inherent instability and a "degrading tendency", that is, the politics of gold and yuan, which has been criticized by more and more political scientists in the United States.
Politics has a counterproductive effect on the economy, gaining political dominance, and economic elites will use their power to seek economic benefits for themselves as much as possible and absorb social wealth-because social wealth is limited, the concentration towards the elite means the disparity between the rich and the poor. “Occupy Wall Street” is a kind of resistance against financial capitalists’ economic plunder under the political monopoly.
Real socialism is all-round democracy in economy and politics.
The realization of personal freedom in politics, democratic election of governing agents, power restriction and supervision are the characteristics of all current capitalist democracy. At the same time, implement democratic distribution in the economy-this is the so-called "public ownership." Public ownership is not based on the monopoly of production tools by non-democratically elected governing bodies. It is just totalitarianism or powerful capitalism, because the government is not your choice. The government Does not represent you. Public ownership is based on the democratic distribution of economic resources by citizens. It can be directly allocated (you and your colleagues directly allocate company resources and elect the company boss) or indirectly (you elect members of the council as your representatives, and the councillors will do the work) You allocate economic resources). But the principle is: everyone has equal decision-making power, not based on your position and type of work-the symbol of a socialist economy is "democracy in the workplace." You elect your boss, and the boss treats the company Responsible for performance, but also responsible for the interests of every employee.
This kind of true socialism in all aspects of economy and politics has not appeared in history, but at present, it has begun to appear in some industries in the United States and Germany. If there is a bread manufacturing company in Wisconsin in the United States, democracy will be implemented. System, this is called "Democratic Company" (search on Google, such as this link http://workplacedemocracy.com/ ) also seen in McMoore's movie "Capitalism-A Love Story" http://www.qire123 .com/videos/22464vod-play-id-22464-sid-1-pid-0.html, 56:55 )
There, the basic salary of an ordinary worker in a bread assembly line and the company’s president is the same, 65,000 US dollars per year, The bonus is estimated based on equal overtime hours per person, 65,000 US dollars, which is three times the annual income of a novice US Air Force pilot.
There are also some young Germans who are influenced by socialist ideals and start companies with equal interests and democratically elected bosses. The recent emergence of "social enterprises" and "microfinance", such as Grameen Bank (Grameen Bank), regard the poor as the main source of customers, and the main source of customers rather than shareholders as the owners of the company. . . These are the embryonic forms of the socialist economy.
The official website of American Democracy Corporation:
http://workplacedemocracy.com/
Wikipedia's definition of "democratic corporation":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_economy
China is now taking the path of powerful capitalism, and is There is very little understanding of socialism, so there are no Chinese documents about Democracy Corporation on the Internet, only the original English text.
Remember that
the capitalist system is: the introduction of private ownership and hierarchical economic, political attention to human rights, the implementation of basic human rights and not only guarantee protection of the political power of democracy
socialist system are: the introduction of democracy and economic freedom assignment, the same guarantees private For property, citizens get what they need; politically, a thorough and stable democratic system is implemented.
The so-called "complete and stable democracy" refers to all-round economic and political democracy. Democracy determines community political affairs, and democracy determines economic redistribution. Not only should the affairs of a political organization be directly handled by all members of the organization /Indirect decisions. Even the affairs of an economic organization should be directly/indirectly determined by all members of the organization. This is true socialism.
The state-owned economy controlled by the bureaucracy is not a socialist economy, but a powerful capitalist economy with socialist ideals.
Therefore, socialism needs extremely developed material conditions as its foundation. From this perspective, it will inevitably require society to experience the process of capitalism. Therefore, the prediction of "Das Kapital" is correct, and true socialism will be realized first in developed countries. To understand true socialism, you have to look at Marx. What you hate is not Marx, but the misunderstanding of Marx by celestial politics.
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