Prestonia Mann Martin Quotes
The Plan provides economic safety while at the same time retaining a huge measure of economic liberty. The problem has been how to attain safety without losing freedom. A solution would appear to lie in comparatively simple compromise between socialism and individualism by applying the one to Necessaries and the other to Luxuries.
She was proposing s radically different pattern of work and economic structure--one of the few really original ideas. All Americans between 18-26 years of age would serve the nation and be assigned to producing and providing the necessities of life for all of society.—Food, Shelter, Health Care etc, See Quotation 644625 for more details,
Prestonia Mann Martin, Prohibiting poverty; suggestions for a method of obtaining economic security, 1933 HD31 .M3 1933c
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Martin had this facinating idea of balancing capitalism and communism in American Society. All youth would be in national service to the state for 8 years during that time why will be assigned by the state to producing and providing the necessary goods and services for evryone else. And these would be goven to all as an entitlement. (She had calculated that is what it took to produce the "necessities") All adults after their national service were entitled to the necessities for life whether or not the worked. However all luxuries would be unter captialistic control. People who anted to make and sell them could do so and could earn money from doing so either as entrepraneurs, investors, employees. So all who wished luixuries would have to earn them in a classic captialsitic system, but the social safety net of the necessities would be free to all.
She had a plan whereby necessities would be free to all citizens. See Related Quotes. This was in 1933.
Many people had come to the conclusion that capitalism as it then existed was not sufficient to correct some of the serious inequities in society. They saw that socialism tended more to focus on those. However, they also saw in socialism per se, as it was than advocated, many other problems. Steffens seems to be the first person to describe that type of person, in this case, himself.
Alexander Dubcek, Communist leader of Czechoslovakia, had pushed reform so far that 5 Soviet armies invaded. Dubcek was brought to Russia where he tried to persuade the Russian premier that the invasion was contrary to the principles of socialism.
Socialism in its then pure form had the state owning and controlling all the major assets of the nation. In this sense it was contradictory to individual freedom and hence democracy. However, in the years after Tocqueville’s quotation and the industrial revolution, socialism has gradually moved away from state ownership and operations of all institutions and resources. Democracy has tended to adopt a more regulatory view to control the excesses of unbridled capitalism. The range of democratic nations by the 21st century encompassed differences but some were described as “social democracies” and had some state ownership but were basically capitalistic economies. Even the self-described Communist nations had become heavily capitalistic albeit with less political freedom. At the same time, even the United States—the epitome of 21st century capitalism, owned and controlled a few of the resources and means of production and tended to regulate the others—a substantial difference from the American democracy which Tocqueville studied.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston. Ironically he was regarded as a socialist by most people. His view of socialism however was what evolved as European Democratic Socialism and not the “dictatorship or the proletariat” type of Communist Socialism.
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