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Merits and Demerits of Socialism

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Socialism is a social and economic system refers to common ownership over the mean of production of state&period; It is believed that socialism is a system evolved against the injustices of industrial era&period; Marxist and non-Marxist both agreed that socialism is reaction of capitalism&period; The foundation of this system can be found way back in history it is also discussed in famous book &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Republic” by Plato&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The philosophy is equal rights for everyone&period; Socialism is a broader term and covers general phenomena of social system&period; Different economists and leaders have altered it as per needs and requirements of the state&period; Socialism existed in different types some time with some religious support and some time as a common social and economic system&period; Communism&comma; Marxism-Leninism&comma; Stalinism and Maoism are some examples of revolutionary and left side government part socialism&period;&&num;160&semi; Christian and Islamic socialisms are examples of religious socialism&period; China&comma; Cuba&comma; North Korea&comma; and Vietnam are examples of current socialist states with some modifications&period;&&num;160&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Advantages of Socialism <&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&lbrack;linkunit&rsqb;Socialism’s advantages are related to overall well being of community and easy to understand for general public&period; Historically we have seen where the countries are deprived or governed by the intruders&comma; after liberty they adopt the socialist infrastructure for their country&comma; examples of French and British colonies can be studied for more details&period;&&num;160&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Full employment level is another merit of socialism&period; All the means of productions are under government control so it’s responsibility of the state to provide job for every citizen&period; Economic conditions are more stable and there is no boom or recession in economy&period;&&num;160&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Socialism work for collective good and also take care of financially and physically handicap people&period; Every citizen of society has equal rights and excess to the state’s resources&period; This is not true in capitalism&comma; where talented and rich people secure well financial and social position and other could not get the equal status&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Disadvantage of Socialism&&num;160&semi; <&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&lbrack;adsense1&rsqb;This system has low economic growth as talented and idle people enjoy the same status&period; This leads to low morale level which makes even capable people inactive&comma; as they feel no reward of their extra effort&period;&&num;160&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The theory of socialism sounds very attractive where basic rights of every individual is secured by government&comma; but in actual the corruption and nepotism are very high and common person enjoys far less rights then the people in authority&period;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Allocation of resources is poor government doesn’t take advance and creative measures to increase productivity&period; As there is no profitability factor so government doesn’t follow market demand&period; There are rigid policies and difficult to change until or unless change in total administration&period;&&num;160&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Socialism emphasis more to society and less to the basic unit of society that is individual&comma; so as long as the basic element is not satisfy with the reward the total outcome cannot be the satisfactory&period;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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