Mr. Toby Young, Senior British Journalist, writing in Spectator, gave a title to his Article "No sacred cows Of course the young like socialism – they’re taught to". Here is link, for those who are interested to read it: Click here to go to https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/09/of-course-the-young-like-socialism-theyre-taught-to/. Not because I wish to retaliate or repel what Mr. Toby Young wrote, but because I wish to follow the Great Leftist Poet of Telugu language - Late Shri Shri, who said "nEnu saitamu bhuvana ghOshaku verri gontuka nicci mOSAnu" (English: I too lent my insane voice to the Universal roars and thunders). I do not think that Students in the thousands of Universities of the World, including British Universities are not taught to think or breathe Leftism. Universities, world-wide are sufficiently Capitalised that they look at Imparting Education as a sort of Lucrative Business of Selling Degrees, to those who can afford.
Question: Why do you want so many Communist/Socialist/Leftist Parties to proliferate?
Ans; 1. Owing to human right violations made by Totalitarian Dictatorships in the so-called Communist countries, globally, Working Classes have lost confidence on the ability of the Leftist Parties to fulfil their promises.
2. Like their Capitalist Counterparts, Communist and Socialist Parties whether they carry the label 'Democratic' or not, do not have inner Democracies. Dissent is not tolerated. Top leaders do not change or rotate.
3. Competition provides alternatives. As long as there is 'healthy' competition, of course, among Communist/Socialist/Leftist Parties, totalitarian dictatorships will not arise.
It has become necessary to reply to everyline, Mr. Toby Young wrote.
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Of course the young like socialism – they're taught to Toby Young 29 September 2018 | Who taught journalists to hate Socialism? Were they not taught in Schools and Universities to love Socialism? |
It beggars belief that Jeremy Corbyn can, with a straight face, announce that capitalism has failed and we'd all be better off under socialism. | It may be his personal opinion. He is entitled to it, just as Mr. Toby Young is entitled to his own. |
The super-rich are on borrowed time,' he said at the Labour party conference. | May not be. They are likely to continue for some more Decades/or a few Centuries. |
He's going to tax the rich until their pips squeak, overlooking the fact that the coalition government's decision to lower the top rate of tax from 50 per cent to 45 per cent actually boosted tax revenues. | No need to tax rich. If everything is owned by an Enlightened Marxist/Socialist Society, Rich need not pay any taxes, because they cannot earn huge wealth exploiting the Society. |
The taxes paid by the top 1 per cent of income earners are now responsible for 28 per cent of the total tax take, higher than it ever was under Labour. | Same as above. |
Coincidentally, 28 per cent of the total amount the government spent in 2016-17 was on welfare — things like social security benefits, disability benefits, incapacity benefits, housing benefit, child benefit etc. | Not just 28%. Govt. can spend more on Welfare, if production takes place in Public Sector. After taking care of Sinking Fund needs for depreciating Plants and Machineries , after taking care of Needs for Developmental Investments, and Disaster Relief Reserves, etc. everything else can be spent, say even 50%. |
In effect, the rich are paying for the services that sustain the poorest people in our society. Isn't that an example of capitalism working as it should? | Without exploitation, how could the Rich capture enormous earning capacity? |
More generally, the superiority of capitalism to socialism when it comes to helping the very poorest is completely indisputable. | They are throwing some crumbs. |
Since 1990, more than a billion people across the globe have been lifted out of extreme poverty as countries like China, India and Indonesia have embraced the fundamental principles of the free enterprise system. In 2013 alone, 114 million people saw their incomes climb from below $1.90 a day to above $1.90, the international poverty line. | Statistics are damn lies. Besides, Poverty is a Relative Measure. |
Compare this with the effect of the socialist economic policies introduced by Hugo Chávez, whom Corbyn hailed as ‘an inspiration to us all'. | mr. Corbyn might have erred. |
Venezuela was once tipped to be among the richest South American countries, thanks to its abundant natural resources; now it is among the poorest. | Venezuela's Rulers might have stashed their Wealth in UK and French Tax havens. Alternatively, if they were honest, then they might have been misled by the Multi Nationals. |
When Chávez came to power in 1998, 48 per cent of households were living in poverty; last year, that figure was 82 per cent. Since 1990, the global infant mortality rate has more than halved, from 64.8 deaths per 1,000 live births to 30.5. Venezuela's infant mortality rate, by contrast, increased by 30 per cent last year. | Detailed unbiased Investigation is needed, to trace out underlying causes. |
I could go on. The 20th century was littered with socialist leaders who plunged their countries into economic ruin. | The words "Socialist Leaders" are to be substituted by "Dictators". |
Most scholars estimate the death toll from communism to be around 110 million, with those who didn't starve to death or die from preventable diseases being worked to death in labour camps or executed by the state. | Same Scholars should also estimate the death toll in Capitalist Factories. |
The standard response of the ‘I am literally a communist' types when confronted with this statistic is to engage in a bit of whataboutery — what about all those killed by capitalism? | Exactly. Capitalist Journalists have to explore. |
In order to make that argument, they have to expand the definition of ‘capitalism' to include the transatlantic slave trade and the most heinous examples of colonialism, such as Belgian's conquest of the Congo, as if slavery and imperial conquest are unique to western capitalism. But even if the free enterprise system has been responsible — is responsible — for a certain amount of misery, it has also alleviated a good deal of suffering. | Sweat Shops in China! in Vietnam ! In every country, Multinationals have opened Sweat Shops to recruit locals as "Undeclared Slaves". |
Socialism just impoverishes and enslaves people. | The word "Socialism" is to be substituted by "Capitalist-Crony-Dictatorships". |
Yet a majority of young people prefer socialism to capitalism. This is one of the great mysteries of the age. | Young people do not know much about Socialism. No such mysteries anywhere. Youth tend to believe in Capitalism because they fantasy of themselves becoming Great Business Persons. |
According to a Pew survey carried out in 2011, 49 per cent of 18- to 29-year-old Americans have a positive view of socialism and only 43 per cent a negative one. When it comes to capitalism, the vote swings the other way, with 47 per cent positive and 48 per cent negative. The same is true of British millennials. | American Youth are yet to study True Socialism in depth. We should thank Mr. Berney Sanders for bringing Socialism to the fore in the last Democratic Nominations. |
At the last election, 62 per cent of 18- to 24-year-olds voted Labour. How to explain this? | Not enough proof. May be a belief. |
It's as if, given the choice of getting into two cars, one a VW Golf and the other a 100-year-old jalopy held together with spit and glue, they'll happily choose the deathtrap. | Capitalist Journalists exaggerate the muddy image of Socialism. |
I blame the education system. In the past I've written about the left-wing bias of British universities. | Not enough proof. |
For instance, a survey of university staff in 2015 found that only 11 per cent intended to vote Conservative. | With the exception of Jeremy Corbyn, how many Labor Leaders outspeak about the Evils of Capitalism? |
But the imbalance in our schools is even worse, as we were reminded by the teacher at the Labour conference who claimed that if children get a ‘proper education' the country ‘won't have any Tories'. | May be partly true. Which teacher? Most teachers seem to ignorantly support Capitalism. |
Only 9 per cent of British schoolteachers voted Conservative last year, compared with a plurality in the 1970s. | Not enough proof. |
That's an all-time low. Is it any wonder young people believe capitalism is the font of all evil and the magic grandpa will create a socialist paradise? The poor bastards have been brainwashed. | The phrase "poor bastards" shows the poor taste of Mr. Toby Young. |
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