Albert Einstein on Socialism

[hipeter924]

What type of 'socialism'? Socialism is as broad in its implementation as capitalism - like Stalinism to Sweden.

 

[2aguy]

What type of 'socialism'? Socialism is as broad in its implementation as capitalism - like Stalinism to Sweden.

It all leads to hell......some forms just take the scenic route...others march straight to the gulags and death camps.....

speaking of Sweden....they are taking steps closer to hell now......

Ivar Ekman How Immigrants Are Changing Sweden s Welfare State Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs


All this is happening against the backdrop of big economic challenges. Sweden’s open refugee policies were formulated in the 1970s, at a time when it was the fourth-richest country in the world and unemployment rates hovered just above zero. “Equality” and “solidarity” were the catchwords of the day. It was an easy time to be generous, in other words, to people fleeing dictatorships in countries such as Chile and Iran. But economic growth has been sluggish since the 2008 financial crisis and, even more worryingly, jobs have become scarce -- especially in the sorts of low-skilled sectors that newly arrived immigrants have traditionally flocked to. Unemployment is now stubbornly stuck above eight percent. Among foreign-born Swedes, the rate is twice as large.

Compared with many other Western countries, Sweden has weathered the financial crisis fairly well, and it is still a remarkably comfortable place to live. Sweden’s welfare state remains in place. Every resident of Sweden -- whether they were born there or not -- is entitled to free public health care, a year of parental leave paid by the government, mandatory sick-leave benefits, and free dental care until the age of 20. But the social contract that this system depended upon is beginning to fray, especially due to the scarcity of jobs. According to Lars Trägårdh, a historian who has written extensively on the Swedish welfare state, the hallmark of Swedish society has been a combination of very high social trust and a marked degree of individualism based on a duty to work. Sweden is becoming the clearest case study of a question being asked across Western Europe: Can a modern welfare state be reconciled with rapidly increasing diversity at a time of rapidly dwindling job prospects?

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Yes...the social welfare state ends in human misery.....as the state runs out of money...but the people still demand their freebies......and then the hate starts, and the gulags and death camps are built.....

 

[RKMBrown]

From a 1949 essay by Albert Einstein:

Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be in a position to find employment; an “army of unemployed” almost always exists. The worker is constantly in fear of losing his job. Since unemployed and poorly paid workers do not provide a profitable market, the production of consumers’ goods is restricted, and great hardship is the consequence. Technological progress frequently results in more unemployment rather than in an easing of the burden of work for all. The profit motive, in conjunction with competition among capitalists, is responsible for an instability in the accumulation and utilization of capital which leads to increasingly severe depressions. Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals which I mentioned before.

Why Socialism

In the wake of technological advances which increasingly benefit only the rich, I think everyone should open their minds to the possibility of what the world could be instead.

ROFL yeah we should go back to using sticks and stones so we'll all be better off. ROFL

 

[GreenBean]

From a 1949 essay by Albert Einstein:

Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be in a position to find employment; an “army of unemployed” almost always exists. The worker is constantly in fear of losing his job. Since unemployed and poorly paid workers do not provide a profitable market, the production of consumers’ goods is restricted, and great hardship is the consequence. Technological progress frequently results in more unemployment rather than in an easing of the burden of work for all. The profit motive, in conjunction with competition among capitalists, is responsible for an instability in the accumulation and utilization of capital which leads to increasingly severe depressions. Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals which I mentioned before.

Why Socialism

In the wake of technological advances which increasingly benefit only the rich, I think everyone should open their minds to the possibility of what the world could be instead.

Been tried before...Weren't you paying attention?

It didn't work then , it doesn't work now and it won't work tomorrow ... it goes against human nature.

 

[2aguy]

Why Socialism

In the wake of technological advances which increasingly benefit only the rich, I think everyone should open their minds to the possibility of what the world could be instead.

And the rest of that quote...which I am making up......."and if we simply murder the right people....we will open the minds of those we haven't murdered as we seek paradise on earth.......if 100 million murders doesn't get the job done...well.....there are always more death camps and gulags to be built....but we will eventually get it right...."

 

[occupied]

Why Socialism

In the wake of technological advances which increasingly benefit only the rich, I think everyone should open their minds to the possibility of what the world could be instead.

And the rest of that quote...which I am making up......."and if we simply murder the right people....we will open the minds of those we haven't murdered as we seek paradise on earth.......if 100 million murders doesn't get the job done...well.....there are always more death camps and gulags to be built....but we will eventually get it right...."

Or perhaps a place where people do not do without the necessities of life in the midst of massive abundance. As automation continues to make human workers redundant I wonder what capitalists have in store to deal with excess under-performing consumers. From a capitalist point of view there is nothing more useless than people who do not buy enough products.

 

[JoeNormal]

From a 1949 essay by Albert Einstein:

Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be in a position to find employment; an “army of unemployed” almost always exists. The worker is constantly in fear of losing his job. Since unemployed and poorly paid workers do not provide a profitable market, the production of consumers’ goods is restricted, and great hardship is the consequence. Technological progress frequently results in more unemployment rather than in an easing of the burden of work for all. The profit motive, in conjunction with competition among capitalists, is responsible for an instability in the accumulation and utilization of capital which leads to increasingly severe depressions. Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals which I mentioned before.

Why Socialism

In the wake of technological advances which increasingly benefit only the rich, I think everyone should open their minds to the possibility of what the world could be instead.

ROFL yeah we should go back to using sticks and stones so we'll all be better off. ROFL

I must've missed the part about sticks and stones.

 

[JoeNormal]

Why Socialism

In the wake of technological advances which increasingly benefit only the rich, I think everyone should open their minds to the possibility of what the world could be instead.

And the rest of that quote...which I am making up......."and if we simply murder the right people....we will open the minds of those we haven't murdered as we seek paradise on earth.......if 100 million murders doesn't get the job done...well.....there are always more death camps and gulags to be built....but we will eventually get it right...."

Or perhaps a place where people do not do without the necessities of life in the midst of massive abundance. As automation continues to make human workers redundant I wonder what capitalists have in store to deal with excess under-performing consumers. From a capitalist point of view there is nothing more useless than people who do not buy enough products.

Indeed. The great culling is coming.

 

[RKMBrown]

From a 1949 essay by Albert Einstein:

Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be in a position to find employment; an “army of unemployed” almost always exists. The worker is constantly in fear of losing his job. Since unemployed and poorly paid workers do not provide a profitable market, the production of consumers’ goods is restricted, and great hardship is the consequence. Technological progress frequently results in more unemployment rather than in an easing of the burden of work for all. The profit motive, in conjunction with competition among capitalists, is responsible for an instability in the accumulation and utilization of capital which leads to increasingly severe depressions. Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals which I mentioned before.

Why Socialism

In the wake of technological advances which increasingly benefit only the rich, I think everyone should open their minds to the possibility of what the world could be instead.

ROFL yeah we should go back to using sticks and stones so we'll all be better off. ROFL

I must've missed the part about sticks and stones.

What do you think came before "technical advances?"

 

[occupied]

Why Socialism

In the wake of technological advances which increasingly benefit only the rich, I think everyone should open their minds to the possibility of what the world could be instead.

And the rest of that quote...which I am making up......."and if we simply murder the right people....we will open the minds of those we haven't murdered as we seek paradise on earth.......if 100 million murders doesn't get the job done...well.....there are always more death camps and gulags to be built....but we will eventually get it right...."

Or perhaps a place where people do not do without the necessities of life in the midst of massive abundance. As automation continues to make human workers redundant I wonder what capitalists have in store to deal with excess under-performing consumers. From a capitalist point of view there is nothing more useless than people who do not buy enough products.

Indeed. The great culling is coming.

Yes, I see it as inevitable that the plutocrats will find some way to thin the herd before the herd thins them.

 

[NYcarbineer]

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And government enforced slavery around the world...until the idea of Capitalism came around and some people realized that theft as a system to run an economy was stupid.....but then others jumped on the socialism band wagon and realized that "government" stealing was nicer.......

The government allowing slavery is not the government 'enforcing' slavery.

Well....they certainly didn't use soldiers or police to free those poor souls did they....oh yeah....that took Republicans shooting enough democrats till they got the point that owning slaves was wrong....sadly, the democrats just turned to government to own people for them.......through social welfare programs.....meant to enslave and entrap people to the will of the democrats.

lol, another retard who thinks Republican/Democrat in the modern context is somehow related to 1860.

lol, another retard who thinks Republican/Democrat in the modern context is somehow related to 1860.

No, actually, you fucking moron, the democrats have changed since the civil war.....they learned from the socialists that you don't just enslave people based on race.....you enslave them all, regardless of color and you can best do that by getting them hooked on government welfare....you encourage teenagers to have children who have children, destroy any and all normal male and female role models, and once you have destroyed the nuclear family....you have uneducated, poor, angry easily led people who will vote you power at a 98% rate.....this strategy can best be seen in democrat inner cities.....

That's a dramatic pile of horseshit you've cooked up there. Bon appetit.