Capitalism and Democracy
One immediate problem we face discussing democracy and capitalism is that both terms have different meanings for different people. For some people “capitalism” is synonymous with “corporatism” or “crony capitalism,” which combines nominally private enterprises with a highly interventionist political system—indeed, something like the U.S. system today. Likewise, “democracy” for some is synonymous with social and economic equality. For them, no democracy can exist when some people live in poverty, some cannot read, and others live in mansions or attend Ivy League schools.
For my purposes, however, democracy will be defined simply as “the people rule,” or, more specifically, “majority rule.”
https://fee.org/articles/capitalism-and-democracy/
Why Socialism Fails
The analogy of the jockey and the horse explains the continued appeal of socialism. Socialists believe that socialist regimes have chosen the wrong jockeys to ride the socialist horse to its deserved victory. Bad jockeys such as Stalin, Mao, Fidel, Pol Pot, and Hugo Chavez chose tactics and policies that led their socialist horse astray. But actually, a look at how the Soviet Union actually worked reveals that it’s the horse itself that’s the problem.
https://www.hoover.org/research/why-socialism-fails
Thanks, Gov. Cuomo, but no thanks. Journalists don't want assault protection.
Distancing himself from a president who’s made insulting the news media a personal pastime, Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to make it a felony to assault a working journalist.
The sentiment is appreciated. But this reporter will take a pass.
Adding journalists to the growing list of occupations in New York with similar protective status, including police, firefighters, paramedics, judges, nurses, utility workers, train conductors, bus drivers, sanitation workers and process servers, is a slippery slope.
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