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Socialism is an economic system which demands social ownership of the means of production. Not umbrella, that's what it means. To achieve this, you need someone to control it, right? That's where one party goes into play. That turns into dictatorship more often than not. And every single...

Okay, my second in command of the Law fanclub @Roo can represent me on this matter. :endthis:

There's no good example though.

Yes, it's meant to enforce socialist policies efficiently and so it becomes dictatorial. Why doesn't everyone know that :josad:

Dear Van. Socialist countries often morphed into authoritarian regimes BECAUSE they needed to enforce economic control. :josad:

That would take at least two days to write :christunate: It doesn't work, it always leads to economic collapse. Companies could never sink due to losses, banks would lent to failing companies, everything depended on the state, then the state went into massive debt to maintain this somehow...

Which one was never tried? :few:

Well, most mining laws in Europe demand that part of the royalties go to the local communities, which in itself is great (this is not the case for US states). Again, it depends on how the country is governed.

It's not an argument, it's a fact in response to Roo. If you wanna argue about socialism, we can :milaugh:

Capitalism is the most successful economic system out of everything which was tried in history, but if you think of something better, make a suggestion. As long as it isn't socialism. :kayneshrug:

I think people are confusing a lot of terms when it comes to this topic, every country has sovereignty over their resources and sets their own rules about extraction, but in case of "ownership", it's most common for the resource to be state owned and extracted by private companies. It's not de...

Anyways, be nice to each other, no name calling :sweat:

I do not subscribe to the newly appeared socialist ideas. It's a terrible trend and it only came alive in countries that have clearly had 0 experience with it.

A non argument

It will absolutely be a win for the US and US companies, but as I said, far from it that Venezuela won't profit GREATLY if they bring all their resources to the market properly. And yes, they cannot do it.

Did you read over royalties, taxes and having an industry?

I was born in a socialist state, so indeed :dankfoil:

That's not how it works, every country has ownership over their recourses, it's just that with the US companies being allowed to invest and bring technology will massively improve production = bring a lot more revenue to Venezuela, who will earn a lot via royalties, taxes and having a serious...

So, in your opinion, how would you get rid of imperialism?