Post by Allison Sandings on Apr 14, 2009 12:40:14 GMT -7
The age old conflict between an individual against the collective, capitalism with communism, aristotelian against platonism, kant and Marx against Lock and Rand, and such philosophical conflicts causes the cold war. The united soviet socialist Republic (USSR) is a socialist state as it states in their name, where it states so clearly, "Soviet Socialist." The United States is a republic (not a democratic state, that's wrong. That's Athens,) and has a mixed economy. The United states does not run on capitalism as so many fool themselves in believing as there is a large influence in the private sector by the government. Capitalism in it's purest forum is an economy where the government does nothing more than keep order in society, ensuring that no citizen violates the law. They do not interfere with markets and certainly does not control or desire to nationalize it.
The communists wanted a system where everyone lived in peace in a lifestyle such as a village. They wanted everyone to get along, and not greed. The people who needed most would get most. The Person who worked hard would not get anymore than anyone else as that wasn't fair to the communists.
These two systems were global, not as so many believe works only when it's global, but because they wanted everyone to trade similarly. No matter how these systems worked, the efficiency would be the same. Things would be better and easier to deal with if everyone was under one system. So, they tried to promote this. The system which won this competition would be the economic system for international trade.
The Capitalists were so few, it never succeeded. They fought for it, mostly in the united states, but a democratic mixed economy overpowered the battle This led to the clash in Germany. The U.S. advanced towards the east and soviet advanced towards the west. This splits Germany into bipolar halfs, east Germany and west Germany. The U.S. still controled west berlin, but it was so deep in the platonists side to the point where it became a problem. They ignored the soviets and continued shipping their goods to West Berlin as if the Soviets were not present. This didn't benefit the soviets so Joseph Stalin blockaded Berlin. The U.S. flew goods in and dropped them in to west Berlin, therefore still delivering their products. The soviets built a wall in the middle of Berlin to set off their part. Communism and a mixed economy can't work in harmony, much less can a capitalist society operate with a communistic one. There is no possible way to cooperate or compromise. You can't be "filthy rich" and "dirt porr" at the same time. Well unless you plan to be the first one to do so, which I applaud you for trying. The soviets was afraid that the capitalists would intervene so they constructed a wall. This way, no communistic Germans can escape to the side of the western powers. This also assured that the side of the mixed economy cannot send products over to the Soviet's side. The west Germans were wealthy with the help of the United States , and if their goods and products were accessible to these East Germans, they would want to join the rich West Germans,m which was exactly the result Stalin Couldn't handle.
The communists wanted a system where everyone lived in peace in a lifestyle such as a village. They wanted everyone to get along, and not greed. The people who needed most would get most. The Person who worked hard would not get anymore than anyone else as that wasn't fair to the communists.
These two systems were global, not as so many believe works only when it's global, but because they wanted everyone to trade similarly. No matter how these systems worked, the efficiency would be the same. Things would be better and easier to deal with if everyone was under one system. So, they tried to promote this. The system which won this competition would be the economic system for international trade.
The Capitalists were so few, it never succeeded. They fought for it, mostly in the united states, but a democratic mixed economy overpowered the battle This led to the clash in Germany. The U.S. advanced towards the east and soviet advanced towards the west. This splits Germany into bipolar halfs, east Germany and west Germany. The U.S. still controled west berlin, but it was so deep in the platonists side to the point where it became a problem. They ignored the soviets and continued shipping their goods to West Berlin as if the Soviets were not present. This didn't benefit the soviets so Joseph Stalin blockaded Berlin. The U.S. flew goods in and dropped them in to west Berlin, therefore still delivering their products. The soviets built a wall in the middle of Berlin to set off their part. Communism and a mixed economy can't work in harmony, much less can a capitalist society operate with a communistic one. There is no possible way to cooperate or compromise. You can't be "filthy rich" and "dirt porr" at the same time. Well unless you plan to be the first one to do so, which I applaud you for trying. The soviets was afraid that the capitalists would intervene so they constructed a wall. This way, no communistic Germans can escape to the side of the western powers. This also assured that the side of the mixed economy cannot send products over to the Soviet's side. The west Germans were wealthy with the help of the United States , and if their goods and products were accessible to these East Germans, they would want to join the rich West Germans,m which was exactly the result Stalin Couldn't handle.