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Private Property and Socialism – Video


Private Property and Socialism
discussing one of the most misunderstood aspects of socialism.

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Ed Miliband – what socialism means to him – Video


Ed Miliband - what socialism means to him
During the live TV leaders Q A, Ed Miliband was asked about socialism. Watch his answer which explains why Britain only succeeds when working people succeed.

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Andrew Rosindell On The FAILURE Of Socialism – Video


Andrew Rosindell On The FAILURE Of Socialism
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Peruvian Paper Praises Korean-Style Socialism

Pyongyang, April 9 (KCNA) -- The March issue of the Peruvian paper Accion Nacionalista carried an article titled "DPRK-the only socialist country in the world" written by the director of the paper, illustrated with a portrait of smiling President Kim Il Sung on the occasion of his birth anniversary.

The article said:

The DPRK is an independent socialist country.

To look back on history, everything collapsed and socialism faced a setback due to the crises in the former Soviet Union and the Eastern European socialist countries.

Then how has the DPRK kept standing?

In the DPRK President Kim Il Sung, the great leader of revolution, prominent thinker and theoretician, staunch fighter and founder of the Juche idea, founded the Workers' Party of Korea, established the Korean-style socialist system and maintained independence in political and economic affairs on the highest level.

Thanks to his line, socialism in the DPRK didn't collapse and it will stand more firmly in the future.

The paper also carried a photo of the military parade held at Kim Il Sung Square.

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Scott Walker's stadium socialism: Column

James Bovard 10:02 a.m. EDT April 10, 2015

In this March 14, 2015 file photo, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks at a training workshop for the New Hampshire state Republican Party in the auditorium at Concord High School in Concord, N.H. Walker is facing criticism for seeming to change his stance on certain issues to court political favor ahead of the GOP presidential primaries.(Photo: Jim Cole, AP)

Governor Scott Walker has soared to the front of Republican presidential candidates thanks largely to his reputation for fighting wasteful government spending in Wisconsin. Republican faithful across the nation envision Walker as the great hope to finally end Washington budget shenanigans. But a tangled, tawdry stadium subsidy deal Walker is championing raises questions about whether the Wisconsin governor is ready to play in the Big League.

Gov. Walker last month asked the Wisconsin legislature to provide $220 million in funding for a new stadium for the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team. Walker claims that his proposal relies on a "common-sense, fiscally conservative approach" that is carefully structured to avoid gouging Wisconsinites: "There's absolute security for the taxpayers. No new taxes, no drawing on existing revenues, no exposure to the future."

But the stadium subsidy, which Walker labels "Pay Your Way," relies on an accounting gimmick pretending to earmark the future tax payments of NBA players to cover the costs of the tax-free bonds to finance the stadium. Republican Wisconsin Rep. Chris Kapenga said, "The governor's proposal would divert these increased tax dollars, which are included in future revenue projections... to the owners of the Bucks to help fund the Milwaukee arena." Nor is there any reason to presume that government outlays will not soar in the following years. As the Manhattan Institute's Steven Malanga warns about stadium subsidies: "If you build it for them, they will fleece you."

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Walker claims that bankrolling a new arena "will preserve and potentially expand jobs and economic growth related to the facility." (The Bucks owners have threatened to pull out of Milwaukee unless they get receive the stadium equivalent of a king's ransom.) But a government injection of capital into a basketball venue will not magically revive Milwaukee's prosperity. Economist Dennis Coates, in a study for the conservative American Enterprise Institute, warns that the presence of professional sports teams "may actually reduce local incomes... Wages and employment in the retail and services sectors have dropped [in many local economies] because of professional sports." Howard Gleckman of the liberal Urban Institute also concludes that "there is no evidence that professional sports stadiums do anything to increase economic development."

Walker's stadium pitch is strongly opposed by the liberal group One Wisconsin Now and by the Wisconsin Conservative Digest, whose editor, Bob Dohnal scoffs: "All these claims about development and improving the economy are all just baloney."

Stadium socialism is crony capitalism at its worst. A Bloomberg News analysis concluded that subsidies for sports structures have cost taxpayers $4 billion in recent decades. Professional sports team owners tend to be the among the richest 1% of the richest 1%.

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