by Gary C. Gibson

Created on: October 13, 2009   Last Updated: December 04, 2009

Socialism is less corrupt than corporatism and is therefore doomed. In economics the most powerful win. Winning is determined by who owns the broadcast media, has the money and power and the best defensible politically correct talking points. With 'socialist' being the third word in 'U.S.S.R'. that term has no hope of existing today. Homosexual seduction of politicians and the broadcast media have a better chance of being upwardly mobile, yet many people think that homosexuality sucks; its appeal to the non simpering heterosexual majority is negligible. Socialism at least has meaningfully positive value.

The philosophy of the sans culottes find their highest expression perhaps in the prose poem 'Footprints in the Sand'. Plainly the barefoot author envisioning relief from the oppressive weight of sun and meaninglessness sympathized with spiritual socialism. At least the Bible has some notion of good neighbor values and loving one's neighbor's interests a well as one's own. Such an attitude in regarded by the carnivorous elite of corporatism as introverted quasi-socialism.

Any well balanced democracy must place limits upon the income of the most rich and the most poor-maybe 300 times, if oligarchy and globalist corporatism is not to replace it. Historically modern democracies that work have well financed social welfare systems in place to relieve the oppressed and disadvantaged of stagnating indolence and even worse conditions such as starvation, protracted illness and death. When such a well functioning social safety net is absent the times generally coincide with the concentration of wealth and a decline in the income or rate of increase of income of the average citizen of that democracy. In the post cold-war era such social welfare rationality has been brutally attacked with a hate crimes rabidity by concentrated wealth interests of global corporatism.

An effective social welfare system is a kind of inherent safeguard against coercive financial negotiating by the advantaged corporate powers upon a citizenry. An ineffectively designed social welfare system is oppressive in itself; demeaning, degrading and socially destructive. A reformed social safety net provides better designed and individualized opportunities to advance individual, personal interests financially and socially without falling into the dysfunctional unreal incentives such as Ricky Williams in his first year with the New Orleans Saints pro football team was given in his contract such that it was doomed to fail.

Socialism historically is the most common form of tribal government, yet it is one designed for a rather unspecialized economic structure, whereas private property and free enterprise are more appropriate for an individuated and more productive educated society requiring privacy and liberty to create their own work ontologies. Corporatism has largely taken the displacing social organization role some attribute to neo-socialism. The power of large trans-national corporations adversely totalizes a democratic society, rendering non-conformity to economic control by global corporate purchased politicians transformed into the twilight zone of dysfunctionalism

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