Name: Anonymous 2006-07-04 7:42
Socialists like to say that capitalism is evil because it means that coorporations will come along and us their money to bribe the government. Fair enough, this is absolutely true. A person with a lot of money can bribe someone to do this and this is all terribly bad.
What I don't understand is how in flying moot socialism can solve this problem?? Socialism as a solution to this problem is like trying to solve crime by enlisting gangsters into the police.
If you want to keep people from using economic power to by-pass justice the last fucking thing you do is create a monopoly over every sector of the economy and then put the same people in charge over the law-making process.
Comparing democratic-capitalism and democratic-socialism, it is obvious that the people who will inevitably have economic-power will find it easier to be corrupt in a socialism since they are part of the government. Creating laws to prevent corruption within a bureaucracy is astronomically more difficult than creating laws to prevent corruption from enterring a bureaucracy.
The bureacrats may not have much money, but they have the power to change a few minor things here and there, give the housing department a 0.1% extra bit of cash from a billion $ budget which will go to "security administration", slip in a few fallacious arguments to get people to support corrupt decisions and corrupt the democratic process and they can get away with this much easier since they are in the same political paty as those who make the laws. Sure, people with a lot of money in a capitalism can do the same, but it's a hell of a lot easier if you are actually part of the government.
Power to the people! Not the government.
What I don't understand is how in flying moot socialism can solve this problem?? Socialism as a solution to this problem is like trying to solve crime by enlisting gangsters into the police.
If you want to keep people from using economic power to by-pass justice the last fucking thing you do is create a monopoly over every sector of the economy and then put the same people in charge over the law-making process.
Comparing democratic-capitalism and democratic-socialism, it is obvious that the people who will inevitably have economic-power will find it easier to be corrupt in a socialism since they are part of the government. Creating laws to prevent corruption within a bureaucracy is astronomically more difficult than creating laws to prevent corruption from enterring a bureaucracy.
The bureacrats may not have much money, but they have the power to change a few minor things here and there, give the housing department a 0.1% extra bit of cash from a billion $ budget which will go to "security administration", slip in a few fallacious arguments to get people to support corrupt decisions and corrupt the democratic process and they can get away with this much easier since they are in the same political paty as those who make the laws. Sure, people with a lot of money in a capitalism can do the same, but it's a hell of a lot easier if you are actually part of the government.
Power to the people! Not the government.