In a free society if a group of people wanted a socialist community they could form one?
But in a socialist society if free people want to form a society based on the individual why couldn’t they?
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Filed under Politics by on Dec 29th, 2009. 
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Socialist societies, by definition,are not free. If they were, they would be capitalists,and a whole lot better off.
The dirty truth about socialism and communism, it only functions as far as capitalism can work it’s way around government restrictions.
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WHAT free society are you talking about? it sure can’t be the gov. in D.C. they are taking over EVERYTHING. and we are the puppets.
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In a truly free society the people could create whatever system they wanted. Socialism and capitalism are barely even theories. Both of them could be repressive, and they are. It is all in the implementation of these “theories”.
A system that was purely one or the other is unknown to us. What we have in America with central banking, a planned economy via the federal reserve and all that is far from free market capitalism.
We are also no where close to socialism. If we were then when the government bought up most of GM, the profits they made would go back into the government. They do not. We have socialized losses and privatized gains.
My question to you is wth are we?!
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I guess they could, there was someplace in the US that made and used their own money when the economy flopped.
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The first answer listed is incorrect. The economy would be controlled by the government, but that does not necessarily mean that the people will not be free. Civil liberties are not intertwined with economic equality. For the people to remain free a “social contract” among citizens would need to be made that agrees that they want this system. Production and distribution of goods would be done by or planned by the government and tries to gain economic equality among all the people.
They could do what you’re asking in theory, but it is highly improbable to ever happen. Either one person or a small ruling elite would be placed in controll of the major desicions and power tends to corrupt. Repeatedly throughout history people have failed to hold to the ideals of socialism and they give themselves or specific people perks. For it to function correctly it would require that whoever is in charge of the country avoid this.