There are political and economic cycles in history. A trend towards socialism in the Democratic party is a natural development. Socialism is the traditional remedy to the concentration of wealth in a void of intelligent ideas within democracy or the opportunity for a democracy to exist and produce high taxes on those with concentrated wealth. There is a scale of equilibrium or balance in politics and economics- a history over the past couple of centuries between over concentration of wealth and socialism/communism. Socialism is the gross economic remedy the masses use to liberate the concentration of wealth from a minority. Socialism for itself is economically moribund, uncreative and minimally productive. It is a war policy in effect great at redistributing power and wealth though minimally progressive in economics.
The masses tend to be sycophants of dominant policies at either end of the scale for a while- not wishing to seems to be enemies of the ascending economic policy. That promotes totalization to those extremes of concentration of wealth or concentration of socialist power to entirely eliminate private property. That was the condition of the mature socialist state of Soviet Russia under Joseph Stalin,.
Socialism is the default economic policy of correction to the over concentration of wealth.
Yet, it is not a substitute for competent government.
It is not a true economic policy.
It is a policy of redistribution.
It is quite obvious and manifestly evident that since the Reagan Administration, Neither party and the United States, The Democrat or Republican have been able to balance a budget or increase taxes on the rich effectively With public debt at more than 30 trillion dollars and interest on the debt.
More than a trillion dollars annually.
With neither party willing or able to Create an economic program policy that could balance the budget.
Without draconian changes to government, Socialism appears In the absence of competent economic ideas and policies for the Democrat Party that have prevailed since at least Socialism is the sole economic policy, it's an easy policy to imagine to sell.
It does kill free enterprise economics.
It does stagnate economic development.
It creates Tax flight refuges.
It can take over existing businesses and industries, Yet they just stagnate.
The creativity is gone, the motivation to help oneself is gone.
When socialism appears Creativity and free enterprise die.
Socialism sometimes May coexist with a mixed economy that still permits free enterprise.
Yet, the natural tendency for the bureaucrats And the politics of people totally bought into socialism Is to blame every economic problem the nation faces on the remaining free enterprise and private enterprise businesses with wealth, And so gradually, those businesses, are brought to extinction.
The first Soviet leader, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, is a good example of the way that socialism, took over existing business, from the Tsar, imperialism and a mixed economy.
That is, if not, only did the Imperial government have wealth. Russia had private enterprise as well, imperial estates and business. Socialism when it was brought to the Russians, and Russia was relabeled the Soviet Union appeared as the correction to concentrated wealth. The state took over everything methodically over time- fairly quickly. Lenin discovered the inability of communist government to operate existing industries after the conquest of socialism. industries closed down or operated with low efficiency and markets were eliminated for state allocations of resources. He moderated pure socialism with mixed free enterprise ownership for a while before he died of a succession of strokes. The problems of pure socialism being immediately forced upon a country were evident, So he started the new economic policy (NEP).
Stalin and and Supporters became tired of Lennon's Mixed economic program and decided simply to take it over. Within a couple of years after Stalin’s rise following Lenin’s death most of the old guard revolutionary communist alumni were liquidated. Stalin became the new and only face of Russian state socialism. Fundamentally he forced people to work or be sent to the Gulag sharing the motto above Auschwitz’ gate “Work Makes You Free’.
The Kulakization program shrank farming enterprise fundamentally made it illegal for a farmer to own three cows. He was permitted just one. State run collective farming became the rule over time. Farmers were shrunk in size and property areas, Holdings, And Relocated in many cases and several million deaths.
With some adaptation from the west and native engineering excellence the Soviet Union reached the modern world- yet a very consumer unfriendly one. That direction was non-creative and non-productive, and eventually the Soviet Union was not able to compete economically with the West. Sentiments of the public moved toward Levi's, rock and roll music and the free enterprise models the free West. With Glasnost and Perestroika the Soviet Union faded away.
