Originally Posted by LordFu

You guys missed my point. Socialism is nice on paper, but we live in an imperfect world full of imperfect people. Because of real-world conditions, you have to force people, through taxation and law, to conform to a Socialist system.

It requires a strong centralized government to enforce the policy. My point was that by establishing a strong central government, in the name of Socialism, or any other 'ism, is a bad idea. That is why Socialism doesn't generally work.

Once you establish the level of control required to impliment state socialism, you have set the stage for totalitarianism.

MRiGnS, your talking about libertarian socialism, which is quite different.