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IranianDemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 03:32 PM
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What is the socialist view on corporate regulation?
Can someone sum it up for me in about a paragraph?
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Caution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 03:34 PM
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1. Socialists are for it. <eom>
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denverbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 03:51 PM
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2. That's an impossible question.
There is a political spectrum that runs from capitalism to socialism. Pure socialism is state ownership of the means of production. Pure capitalism is unbridled, laissez faire capitalism.

99.9% of the world is somewhere in between. Most of us a bunched right in the middle. People might call me a socialist because I believe that monopolies should be either regulated or broken up. IMO, I'm not a socialist.

I believe in free enterprise as a rule, but I also realize that greed isn't always good, and that sometimes govt has to step in for the good of society.
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FlaGranny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 04:02 PM
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3. Exactly, and that is what government is for,
the good of society.
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Kamika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 04:04 PM
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4. ok
socialists want that only the goverment runs corporations.

The socialdemocrats that mostly run europe are pretty pro goverment restricting private corporations
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Clete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 04:07 PM
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5. I'll tell you. I Iong for the days when public utilities were monopolies
and they were heavily regulated. Even better yet, would be for those same utilities to be operated as a branch of government.
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