(04-04-2011 01:46 PM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  Communism/Socialism/Liberalism are all left-wing, it's all a matter of degrees. Communism is more left than socialism, which is more left than liberalism. I'm a liberal Democrat, and if I lived in Europe, I'd probably be a socialist. I wish Obama was as liberal as the far-right in this country say he is, things might be better around here.

This post shows why I tend to avoid "debates" about political preferences on the internet. In America, liberalism is seen as left-wing, while in Belgium, liberals are at the right hand side of the spectrum. Even the word itself has different meanings.

I agree about Obama though. He's a great president, but the rightists keep him from being as good as he could be.

Edit: About communism and old-fashioned socialism: It's the best system ever, without exceptions, but fails because of human nature. There's no way to apply it.

Edit 2, after reading some more bits and pieces in this thread: Capitalism actually is rather unfair and unjust, but there's no way around it. Economy and politics has a whole bunch of scenarios where we opt for the bad thing, simply because the good thing is not possible to achieve.