No... This is Not Socialism

Good evening my faithful readers.  Today's blog entry was enthusiastically inspired by the 3 part PBS documentary, "Heaven on Earth - The Rise and Fall of Socialism" (watch it on YouTube here).  This topic is of particular importance as it is one of the most commonly raised criticisms of The Venus Project, The Zeitgeist Movement and a Resource Based Economy.  Now in the interest of maintaining the attention span of the 21st century public, I have committed to keeping these blogs shorter than a couple of paragraphs.  This means i will be sparing you from a 300 page thesis on the pros and cons of socialism and communist political parties.  Instead, i am going to deliver in very simple English, a direct comparison between socialism, as described by The Communist Manifesto, and a Resource Based Economy, as described by The Venus Project. The differences are self evident.

Socialism VS A Resource Based Economy

• socialism is the ideology of a communist political party VS RBE is not associated with any political party
• policy determined by controlling elite VS decisions are arrived at using the scientific method
• territorial resources are state owned VS global resources are common heritage of all mankind
• banks are socialized VS banks do not exist
• production through human labour VS production through mechanized cybernated automation
• social problem solving is state governed VS problem solving is democratized
• society is guided by Utopian ideology VS society is emergent and ever evolving
• national economy competes with globalization VS global RBE is symbiotic with planet Earth
• national scope VS global scope
• national military VS military does not exist
• national communism VS global community
• progressive/graduated tax VS money does not exist
• centralized credit VS debt does not exist
• centralized communication VS wiki based/user generated communication
• state owned production VS no nation states exist
• state controlled technology VS open source technology
• equal liability of all to labour VS  no labour class - production through mechanized cybernated automation
• equitable distribution of the population VS freedom of movement across the globe

 

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