Posted on 12/09/2019 1:24:34 PM PST by aquila48
"Is socialism/communism only for white people?"
And by white people understand I mean REALLY REALLY white people, because ... the only place "socialism" has worked (sorta), is the Nordic countries.
Latino/Hispanic Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia have all gone through large swings to the left and only have a shortage of toilet paper to show for it. Chinese communism (again, not white) only managed to kill more people during peacetime than any world war ever did. Its smaller oriental siblings of Vietnam and Cambodia certainly didn't make a good go of communism either. Ethiopia (again, not white) needed both Soviet money and easily-duped 1980's American kids' monies to not starve. Greece, hee hee, Greece. And even the Soviet Union, though pretty-darn white and even the original practitioner, was just not white enough to pull off communism successfully.
Apparently, it is only the Swedes, Finns, Norwegians, and Danes who can do socialism the justice the rest of the world can't.
But why?
First, we need to take out the obvious outlier of the group, Norway. Again, the left loooooves rushing to Norway as the perfect place to live. It sure is, especially since it has so much oil it sovereign wealth fund makes all of its citizens millionaires. And remember, oil is evil...unless it's under a state owned enterprise, then you never mention it.
Second, are they really socialist? Depending on the country you look at the government "only" spends 45%-60% of GDP leaving a whopping 55%-40% of money in the private hands of those rat bastard people. Not pure socialism by any stretch of the imagination.
And then, let's not forget these "communist" countries not only ALLOW evil private corporations to exist, but they tax them at rates roughly half that of the US!!! Anywhere between 20% and 25%! Those traitors!!!
(Excerpt) Read more at captaincapitalism.blogspot.com ...
"So in short, even the most successful examples of "communism" aren't communist. They're at best the exception-to-the-rule-mixed-European-model-economies.
Still, why do they succeed where every other non-REALLY-REALLY white country fail?
Well first they are racially homogeneous...for now. Don't worry, diversity and the introduction of non-Scandinavian cultures will prove the myth of magic dirt wrong soon enough. But for now, they are racially homogeneous. This has nothing so much to do with their skin, but more the climate they've evolved in over the years. No sun and cold temperatures result in very very white people. That is a function of the climate. But with such cold temperatures also comes short growing seasons, which forces cooperation, heavy reliance upon thy neighbor, a team spirit, and over the years, trust. You force a people to live in that environment over the course of millennia, they will evolve both consciously and unconsciously to vote in a more socialist economic model than one where fruit and bananas are falling from trees on warm tropical beaches.
Second, this instinctual work ethic makes them unconscious dupes. Even though the United States (and to a lesser extent, western civilization) has made the technological advances that allows the individual to work for himself, support himself, and finally be free, those precious Scandinavians just can't jettison thousands of years of environmental and social conditioning. They are not as individualistic of a people. They put their country and society ahead of themselves and their family. They are genetically most borg-like because that is what resulted in survival in the past. And a mere 250-year American experiment won't simply undo all that programming. Therefore, not only do they enslave themselves to the rest of their own society, they're "dupey" enough they'll enslave themselves to completely different societies that largely hate them, or at least view them for the easy marks they are."
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Was Hitler correct about the Nordic Race?
All of the Nordic countries pulled back when it began to fail as socialism always does.
Note that there are more Norwegian-Americans than Norwegians...
The Nordic countries are NOT socialist. But they are big time into TRANSFER PAYMENTS.
Even that assessment is a bit of a generalization. The underground economy, with “cash under the table” jobs is absolutely rampant in Scandinavia. Many people claim welfare benefits while unofficially working full-time jobs that they pay no income tax on.
The author is a nutcase!
The author is a nutcase!
The Nordic countries are not socialist. They have some of the freeist markets in the world.
None of the countries mentioned meet the definition of Socialism which requires social ownership of the factors of production. Even Volvo is no longer a Swedish company, but owned by the Chinese. A more realistic description is that the Nordic countries are a managed welfare state where high taxes are used to pay for social services.
A few weeks back there was an article making the rounds, first-person describing how those “socialist Scandanavian countries” really aren’t getting along as well as advertised. Something along the lines of all-gray neo-brutalist architecture & attitudes populated by people who don’t give much of a $#!^ because there’s no longer an incentive to.
Takes a while for a vibrant culture to degrade into blah. Imposing socialism is doing it.
Jamestown
Plymouth
Brook Farm,
the New Harmony,
the Shakers,
the Amana Colonies,
the Oneida Community,
The Icarians,
Bishop Hill Commune,
Aurora, Oregon and Bethel, Missouri.
all unsuccessful as experiments in socialism in white America for large masses of people.
Vikings are people that left Scandinavia. What are left there, I presume, are the descendants of the less independent and less adventurous.
It would be interesting to know what the government cut is for these transfer payments, but it's probably well hidden. A 50% overhead percentage is a good starting point, which would rate poorly as a charity.
Franklin Roosevelt's “New Deal” in the 1930s was basically a carbon copy of government policies that the Germans, Austrians, and Swiss had since the 1890s.
Mexican Marxist President Calles took Mexico to the far left with the help of Rockefeller Republicans. All he had to show for it was a many tens of thousands of dead bodies.
Almost all non-white majority countries have despotisms of one sort or another. Only some countries with caucasian beginnings have functioning Republics and democracies with the possible exception of India which got extensive training from England which is a white-origin society..
On a per capita basis Norway has the fourth highest output per person in the world behind Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the UAE. It accounts for 8% of their GDP. It’s a lot easier to be socialist with a bunch of free money coming in.
There is apparently no shortage of Caucasian DNA in both India and Pakistan, skin color not withstanding...
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