[quote who="CocaColaAddict" reply="6" id="2199655"] Quoting Xira, reply 4 Quoting Star Adder, reply 22 The point is that without an input of good genes the lower classes can never hope to compete with their masters. So what are you implying? That we should re-instate the right of prima notte or a breeding program that brings women of lower classes and men of the intellectual elite together for sexual intercourse (kind of a "pop and go")? Can't say I wouldn't lik
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Both Socialism and Capitalism are practical when applied without the other. I agree completely. Marx developed his theories based on what he felt was wrong with capitalism, but his preconceptions were false. He believed that capitalists added no values to the products they sold by selling them, and he also assumed that wealth was finite and that the number of new capitalists would never increase. Because of these assumptions, Adam Smith's capitalistic idea is usually m
The Socialism applied in George Orwell's novels was based primarily on the use of fear as a means of control; there was no mutual consensus and cooperation, that is required in a true socialist society. If you wish to see a society closer to that of what Karl Marx had in mind, read Aldous Huxley's Brave New World , where mankind breeds itself to serve each of societies roles, so that everyone does there own fair share of the work and take only what they need, aka the bas
Are we discussing applied Socialism or Theoretical Marxism? I have to admit, there is a huge difference between the two.