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-A true socialist must always reflect on how he or she could learn from the past, so that socialism could develop naturally and organically based on the concrete historical experience of the nation.
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The present English translation of J. V. Stalin's Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. is a reprint of the text given in the English pamphlet by the same name, published in Moscow, 1952. Changes have been made according to other English translations of the pamphlet.
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The original post explains problems with socialism, not why socialism doesn't work. As you yourself mentioned there are successful countries which do have strong socialist aspects to them. However, your examples also have strong capitalist ideals as well, and are therefore not "purely" socialistic examples.
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But it follows from this that the sphere of exploitation of the world's resources by the major capitalist countries (U.S.A., Britain France) will not expand, but contract..."( Stalin, 'Economic Problems of Socialism').
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; UNDER SOCIALISM; PeterJ. Hill; The Problem; For several decades, the degree towhich socialism generates envi-ronmental problems has been a matter of controversy. Oskar Lange, writing in the 1930s, argued that socialism would do a much better job of accounting for all costs than capitalism;
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Parts of the article, titled “Problems Facing Our Socialism,” have been making the rounds on several small blogs over the past week, but Politico.com is now, for the first time, reproducing the entire piece in its original form.
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Many fictional representations of totalitarianism in science fiction films have been created by script writers unaware of the Mises-Hayek critique of socialism. Films often portray an economic system that is a centrally planned economy wealthy far in excess of today’s world.
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On commodity production and the law of value he has a number of views that we approve of ourselves, but there are problems as well. Limiting commodity production to the means of subsistence is really rather doubtful. ... 10. In this section, Commodity Production Under Socialism, Stalin has not comprehensively set forth...
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[1] The book at issue in this critique is Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR by J.V. Stalin. The full contents of this work are available through the Joseph Stalin Reference Archive.
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