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Dr Dimitrios – James Manos (MD)
1st September 2011
HOW THE WRONG APPLICATION OF SOCIALISM DESTROYED
THE ECONOMY OF GREECE. IS SOCIALISM FEASIBLE TODAY?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DVYnKz9Y8s
Greek
is a bankrupted country because of 2 main reasons. All the money of the government
funds were and still are given to the about 1 million public servants in a
small country of 10 million people. If we assume that the working population (excluding
minors and pensioners) is 5 million, then the 20% of the working population
are public servants. It is something like a communistic country! However,
in former communistic countries the public servants neither took high salaries
and pensions, nor had as powerful labor unions such as in Greece in which
the labor unions have the power to control and even blackmail the government
to fulfill its interests!
Also
corruption in Greece is very high. For example, a few years ago, officers
of the German company Siemens were accused of bribing former Greek governments
and other political parties for years. The company was also accused for overcharging
the government to buy its products, and by this way it took back the money
it used to bribe the Greek politicians that preferred the specific companies
exclusively!
The
problem in Greece is that most of the public servants, comparing to the public
servants of other developed countries, can be considered as lazy (someone can ascertain this
by visiting a public section service). Public servants in Greece are paid
with high salary, contrary to private sector employees who are paid with 600
– 700 Euros monthly (and often even with 500 Euros!).
Until
recently, the real working time of some public servants in Greece is less
than 6 – 7 hours. Moreover, until recently, they have been used tricks to
earn a lot of money such as fake overtime hours, fake travel fees, taking
part in committees etc. It is outrageous that Greek public servants have high salary (usually
the real salary, including the numerous benefits they take, is more than 1500
– 2000 Euros), contrary to private sector employees/ workers who earn 500
– 700 Euros! In some public organizations the ‘golden boys’ (president, vice
president, counsellors) earn really huge wages that often are higher than
the wage of the Prime Minister and the wage of the President of the supreme
court! So half of the money of the governmental loans go for paying
wages.
The
other half goes for paying pensions to the pensioners. Greece is a country
with old aged population. So a big proportion of the governmental loans go for pensions. Some
took a pension early, e.g. at 55 year old (e.g. in the army and police).
Also, until recently, Greek women took their pension earlier than Greek
men. Their excuse was that they had to raise their children, however no
one asked about which was the age of the ‘children’ of a 55 years old woman!
Greek
economy has been destroyed from the million of pensioners. Many of them (especially
the ones who worked on public section jobs) take high pensions (e.g. more
than 2000 Euros). Also, many pensioners in Greece
take fake pensions pretending to be incapacitated, by bribing the committee
of benefit administration. Furthermore, often in Greece relatives receive
the pension of a pensioner that has died! No one checks if a pensioner
dies to stop giving the pension.
As mentioned above, all the money of the governmental budget in Greece
goes to the about 1 million public servants, and also for the high pensions
of the pensioners who were former public servants. These 2 reasons
are responsible for the economical crisis in Greece. Today the Greek economy
has been destroyed. The national deficit is huge (perhaps in 2011 it will
close to 8.6%), the recession is high (5%) and the national debt is very big
(more than 340 billion Euros in 2011).
Making
a review in the Greek history we will find out that the real responsible for
the is the politician Andreas Papandreou, father of the today Prime Minister
Georgios Papandreou (in Greece there is a stupid trend of electing the same families for
decades)! Andreas Papandreou destroyed Greece by hiring in the 80s'
1 million public servants (in a country of 10 million people) in order to
take their vote (most of them were hired without examinations, but with political
means & pulls, and their only 'qualification' was that they belonged to
the socialistic political party of Andreas Papandreou).
However,
the person who completed the destruction of the Greek economy is Kostas Karamanlis,
the former Prime minister, who is nephew of the former Prime Minister Konstantinos
Karamanlis (another political family that the Greeks elected for years). Kostas Karamanlis was the one that ruled the country with corruption
and nepotism (however corruption is something that characterizes Greece
the last 30 years) and is responsible for giving fake data to the EU (European
Union) for the Greek economy and also for hiring thousands of people (often
with political acquaintances) to public section jobs, even the time the Greek
economy was destroyed (e.g. when he hired many people on ‘stage’ posts).
It is
outrageous how easy the politicians of the last 30 years in Greece destroyed
its economy. But the Greeks are the ones who
vote their politicians, so Greek citizens are equally responsible.
The 2 big political parties (the ‘socialistic’ ‘PASOK’ and the conservative
‘NEA DIMOKRATIA’) today shouldn’t exist, because they destroyed the economy
of Greece. The Greeks should punish them by sending home the politicians
of the above 2 political parties’ and also by sending some corrupted
politicians in jail!
However,
the Greeks always elected their politicians (the 300! politicians in the parliament
and also the mayors and prefects) with only criterion and motive of hiring
them and/or their children (often without qualifications and often without
examinations) in a public section job.
The
corrupted politicians will never be sent in jail because the politicians themselves
in Greece voted laws to protect them such as the political asylum for the members
of the parliament (according to it the politicians can’t be judged by
courts, but only after the consent of the parliament, something that rarely
happens because of the solidarity between the politicians). Other laws
that the politicians elected to protect them from being judged by the courts
are the law ‘for the responsibility of the ministers’ (that doesn’t let
justice to judge the ministers, but the politicians should first judge them
themselves in ‘special’ Committees and if found guilty they are send to the
special court’), the law for prescribing (erasing) the political crimes
after national elections and the law of prescribing (of erasing) the
crimes after about 5 (for criminal offences) or 10 (for felonies) years.
So it
is outrageous that in Greece not a single corrupted politician has spent a
single day in the jail. The law about the ministers' responsibility is ridiculous
and was made to keep the politicians away from justice. It is ridiculous that
the political parties themselves decide if they will send a corrupted politician
to the court. However, they have never done it the last 22 years
(in 1989 they sent the former prime minister Andreas Papandreou to the
special court, but he found not guilty!).
The
last months there are several committees that politicians from various political
parties take part and are investigating corruption, however not only these
committees do not come up to a decision that will erase the political asylum
of the politicians and send them to justice (perhaps the politicians themselves may be reluctant
to judge their colleagues), but also these committees have high cost and
seems that are held just for the politicians to earn more money. They have
zero benefit. So, to put it in a nutshell, eventually the corrupted
Greek politicians will never go to jail!
There
are many other problems in corrupted Greece. Firstly, most Greeks don't pay
their taxes, but pay less than they ought to. Also, most Greeks (such as doctors, surgeons,
plumbers, electricians and other technicians and also restaurants, bars, taxi
drivers etc) that offer a service never give a receipt. Thus, they
steal the tax service.
Secondly,
the cost of a politician, member of the Greek Parliament is monthly perhaps
6.000 Euros that increases (perhaps) to about 12.000 Euros by taking part
to commitiess. However, the politician Vasilis Leventis claimed that the real total
cost of a Greek politician is about 50.000 Euros monthly including all the
expenses such as the people that occupies such as employees, the police
officers that protect him/her, the political office that the politician keeps,
the car, the free telephone lines and the free letters that the politician
can sent , the free voyages with airplanes and ships etc. There are 300
politicians as Parliament members, so their cost is huge! The Greek politicians
were so irresponsible, that in 2010, when the economic crisis emerged, they
hired without any competition about 250 employees at the Parliament that were
friends or relatives of them! And they still hire many of their relative
and friends at the Parliament or other public section jobs (often without
exams and also without adequate qualifications). Last year, according
to the reporter Giannis Papagiannis of the show ‘Apokalyptiko deltio at the
channel Extra 3 TV, the Prime Minister hired 20 counsellors for his office
that cost in bankrupted Greece 640.000 Euros annually! Furthermore,
the employees in Greek parliament earn 16 wages annually!
Another
outrageous fact is that all the elected in the parliament Greek political
parties take annually huge funds e.g. before the crisis the governmental political party
earned annually 30 million Euros. It is also said that the 2 big political
parties have prepaid their funds for the next 7 years.
Also,
all the political parties (except 1; the right wing party ‘Laos’) have huge debts to Greek banks.
So the Greeks assigned their politicians to save Greece from bankruptcy
the time that the political parties are bankrupted themselves and the politicians
aren’t capable of ruling properly their own political party!
Many
politicians former prime ministers have institutes (that advertise their work)
that are paid with governmental (tax payers) funds. Also, many non governmental institutions have
been funded with millions of Euros from the government (from many ministries
such as the culture ministry, the foreign office, the education ministry etc)
and also the EU. These institutions have to do with art, ecology, theatre,
charity etc. However, no one knows where the money really go.
In Greece,
as mentioned above, the politician Andreas Papandreou, father of the today
Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou, hired 1 million public servants at the
80s. Almost
all were hired without any competition, but with political means and acquaintances,
and only 'qualification' seemed to be their political party ID card! The hiring
of thousands of public servants continued the next years and now Greece has
the highest number of public servants in Europe (about 20% of its working
population). In Greece most public servants have been hired with political
means and acquaintance of a parliament member or a mayor or prefect.
Many Greeks claim that the politicians were the ones who ‘stole’ the money
all these years. However, the Greek citizens are equal responsible for the
situation by voting the 'thieves' (as they call them) politicians, by using
their political pulls and favours to find a job for themselves or their children
and by bribing public servants (such as tax collectors, customs officers,
city planners etc.) in order to overcome bureaucracy and their case to be
completed earlier.
However,
the ones today that ought and deserve to demonstrate should not be the public
servants 'golden boys' (who have high salaries, high pensions and a permanent
job), but all these people in private section jobs who earn 500 – 700 Euros
on private (that often their employers don't even pay their insurance) and
the pensioners of 300 Euros.
The
people in Greece that are below the level of poverty are the 1/3 of the population.
The rest 2/3 have enough money to live for several months or even years in
case of a bankruptcy! However, the rich Greeks, the politicians themselves,
the presidents of public section organizations and the public servants with
high salaries and pensions don't seem that they will be the ones that will
pay for the Greek economical crisis. It is unfair for the poor to pay once
again! But the rich will not pay, because they have moved their funds to foreign
banks at Cyprus, Switzerland etc. More than 8 billion Euros was moved
to foreign banks and off shore companies the last year (perhaps the real number
is 50 billion Euros). So the rich seem unwilling to pay for the economic crisis!
After all they have moved their money abroad!
On May
of 2011, the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF (International
Monetary Fund), 2 days before the imminent bankruptcy of Greece because a
20 years high debt, decided to fund Greece with 110 billion Euros loan that
they would give in the 3 following years. Recently, in July 2011 the IMF and the EU offered
a new loan in Greece of 159 billion Euros.
However,
Greece is already bankrupted, but without the label of bankruptcy. The growth
rates of the Greek economy are negative (the only negative in Europe) and
inflation rises. Greece has high recession and its economy dies every day. The Greeks
themselves do not trust their own banks and billion of Euros were transferred
to foreign banks and off shore companies.
The
last 4 months the Greek government managed to decrease its expenses, however
that means that less Euros will be given for growth. However, the Greek government
failed to earn money from taxes and other sources. Greeks not only pay the
taxes that should really pay, but also most of the Greeks who offer a service
do not give a receipt. Tax collectors, customs officers, doctors (especially
surgeons) and the urban planning officers are often bribed. Also the
rich Greeks do not pay their taxes! Even the tax papers aren’t searched one
by one by anyone, but only a sample of them.
Many
Greeks that own a luxurious craft (boat) exploit a law and claim that they
hire their boat to others (usually their friends and relatives) in order to
avoid paying tax and also to use oil without tax! Also the Greek governments of the last 30 years
have created public service organisations that became monsters and had a deficit
of billion (not even million) of Euros (such as the Greek public railway service
and the Greek transport services – buses, trolleys and the tube – subway).
In those public service organizations million of Euros are stolen by officers
with various frauds (such as the one of buying trains that did not fit
to the railways; as was reported by the Greek newspapers). In those public
organizations the public servants earn high salaries and high pensions.
Also
those public organizations are overcrowded with (many times lazy) public servants
that most were hired there with political acquaintances and means. The public section has
very powerful labour units (with the help of the previous governments that
thought that Greece had communism!) that often blackmail the government
(e.g. in the past the garbage collectors that were hired with political pulls
and favours from the mayors blackmailed the government to give them a permanent
job refusing collecting the garbage and letting tones of garbage accumulate
in big cities; or the public power station workers blackmailed the Greek government
by closing the electrical power for days etc.).
In Greece
the public servants are so spoiled that literally everyday they demonstrate
and close the roads of the centre of Athens and ask for higher wages or to
have a permanent job even though they were hired with fixed – for a few months
– contract (Greece seems to be the only European country in which – by law – the public
servants have a permanent job!).
Most
young people in Greece are so spoiled that seek a public section job in which
they will stay permanently, will not work hard (but rather stay lazy) and
will not be assessed by anyone for their productivity and efficacy! Also they will be paid
with a high salary (often the double than a private section job) and take
after their retirement a high pension! So most young Greeks dream public
section jobs and are reluctant to find a job in private section (after
all the wages in private section in Greece are humiliating) or seek a labour
work. By the way, labour works in Greece are done by the immigrants
(who are exploited by being paid less, working overtime and often by working
without insurance). For example, many Greek farmers drink their coffee
at the cafeteria and the labor work in the farm is done by immigrants!
As mentioned,
all the public section organizations in Greece are overcrowded with people,
many of them used political pulls and favours to be hired (often without examinations). Generally, Greece is a very ill – organized country. Greece has the
highest proportion of police officers and school teachers, however Greece
is a country with high criminality rates and inadequate number of police officers
on the road and also is a country with inadequate amount of teachers in the
(overcrowded; often with immigrants) classes. Recently it was revealed that about 5000 teachers were occupied not in schools,
but in the ministry of educations and other posts that most took with political
acquaintances. Often primary school teachers and high school professors that were hired
with fixed (for a few months) post demonstrate in order to give them a permanent
post!
The
Greek national TV has also thousands of employees (perhaps 5.000, more than
BBC!) that their exact number is said that it is unknown (it is said that many employees
are paid without coming to work – off course they were hired with political
pulls and favours).
Public
Greek hospitals are another important reason of the destruction of the Greek
economy. The
corruption in the Greek hospitals was so high that doctors and hospital officers
of the supply section ordered hospital equipment (such as stents, haemostatic
cotton, pacemakers orthopedic implants etc.) and machines (such as CT scans)
with very high cost (higher than the rest European countries) and with this
extra cost many people were bribed from private drug or hospital equipment
companies! Greece is also the only European country in which most doctors
take ‘presents’ (voyages, money, domestic equipment etc.) from drug
companies in order to prescribe their drugs or their products. The highest
corruption in the public Greek hospitals is with orthopaedic surgical materials
(such as artificial grafts) and also with cardiothoracic surgical equipment
(stents, pacemakers, implanted defibrillators etc.). The former minister of
health, Mariliza Xenogianakopoulou, failed complete to put in order the chaos
that occurs in Greek hospitals.
It is
also outrageous that many Greek doctors (usually surgeons) demand from their
patients to be bribed (this is called in Greece ‘fakelaki’, namely money in
an envelope) in order to take care of the patient (the surgeons also ask extra money for the anaesthetist
that is bribed too). Often the patients bribe the surgeon first, without
being asked for!
Greece
is a country that makes the life of anyone who wishes to invest there difficult. There
isn’t a single investor in the world that would choose Greece to make a company
or another investment. For example a few years ago investors from Canada
tried to create airlines with hydroplanes (seaplanes) amongst Greece, however
the bureaucracy and the taxes were so high that they finally quit! Also
investors from China a few years ago tried to invest at the port of Salonika,
however the labour unions made them change their mind! Last year a
ship company in Corinth (with the ships ‘Robax’ 1 & 2) that did trade
with Italy had problem from a few demonstrators that did not leave the
ships to depart from the port, because they demanded the company to hire Greek
employees!
Recently,
investors from Hong Kong invested at the port of Piraeus. However the labour
unions reacted so much that they succeeded to take huge funds from the government, in order the Greek dockers (longshoremen) to quit taking early a large
pension (of course the Chinese investors would choose cheaper dockers; it
is said that the Greek ones earn more than 4000 – 5000 Euros monthly!). Also
a few years ago, when the government sold part of the public communication
organization (OTE) to a Germany company, it gave an early large pension to
the well paid employees in order to quit (because they cost too much and
also the organization was overcrowded with employees many of which were hired
with political means and ‘pulls’).
Labour
Unions are very manipulative and strong in Greece (as if it was a communistic
country) and the government doesn’t dare to confront them (after all the previous
government gave them such power). By the way, Greece is the only country that
labour unions belong to political parties. Also in Greece the mayors and prefects
belong usually to political parties, contrary to the rest European countries.
Recently
when the government declared that it will sell a part of the energy rights
that the Greek public power organization has. The labour unit threatened that
they will close the power and make a prolonged black out in the country. Also, public transport
in Athens (buses, trolleys and the tube – subway) continuously go on
strike. The employees there want to stay permanently on their job (even though
they are redundant) and react to be moved to a different post.
Ironically,
these organizations (and especially the Greek railway organizations that has
a deficit of 1 billion annually!) have been destroyed financially by frauds
and because of the fact that are overcrowded with employees that – many of
them – seem to be hired with political acquaintances. Also, many public transport employees were paid
with extremely high salaries (it is said that some public railway officers
were earning more than 3000 Euros, perhaps even 4000 Euros), higher than private
union.
In conclusion,
things in corrupted Greece don’t seem to change, unless the Greeks kick away
all the corrupted politicians of the 2 political parties (the ‘socialistic’
‘PASOK’ and the conservative ‘NEA DIMOCRATIA’) that ruled Greece the last
30 years and literally destroyed its economy. However, not a single corrupted
Greek politician has been judged by a political court and gone to jail.
There are many Greek politicians that entered the Parliament with low income
and in a few years became rich.
Greece
is already bankrupted. It is a country with destroyed economy (with high inflation, high unemployment
and low growth rates, high recession and high deficit & national debt)
and in which the most valuable part of the population, the young, abandon
Greece in order to immigrate to other countries for a better luck! Recently,
many immigrants from Greece leave the country to go to a better place.
Also, almost 50% of the shops in Athens and other major cities have
closed or are about to close, because of their debts! But if things
come different and Greece doesn’t bankrupt, then it have will have a destroyed
economy for the next 30 years. After all, all the industries and manufactories
of Greece have all moved to other countries of the Balkans with cheaper labour
hands and with less taxes. So today Greece produces nothing!
It must
become clear that it doesn’t matter if Greece has the label ‘bankrupted’,
as it is already a bankrupted economy that no one trusts today. The ‘spreads’ (cost of
taking loans) of the Greek public bonds – that are considered as trash – are
extremely high; about 1800 units on 7 September 2011. Also the possibility of bankruptcy of Greece is still very high,
90% on 8 September 2011! That means that Greece can’t take
any foreign loan, because it has completely lost its credibility. Things
in Greek economy, especially the poverty, are not about to change the next
30 years.
B)
IS
SOCIALISM FEASIBLE TODAY?
Socialism
is a very good solution for the economic crisis. But before we go on with
socialism, we have to talk about communism! That is because socialism is the initial system
of communism. Namely we start with socialism and end up, some (or many,
depends when we are ready!) years later with communism! However, seems that
many people that talk about socialism are unaware of this fact!
By the
way, speaking theoretically, all former ‘communistic’ countries were not communistic,
but actually socialistic! However, I would avoid repeating this, in order
not to confuse you. I will refer to communism and socialism the way these
words are used in practice.
Communism
needs to change today. As a system, in all countries where communism was adopted,
it totally failed. We need a ‘modern communism’, a new communism with many
changes.
As mentioned, socialism is the initial system that ends up to communism.
So today, more than ever (because of the economic crisis), all countries need
to follow immediately the economic model socialism. Are you afraid of socialism?
You shouldn’t! I remind that modern countries such as the Scandinavian
are a great example where socialism worked and it was combined excellent with
democracy. Socialism has many advantages for the citizens such as free
access to education and health system.
By the way, even now, the president of the USA (called by some ‘socialist’!)
adopted a new socialistic health system where all will have access to medical
services, contrary to the old system in the US, where the national health
system was manipulated by private insurance companies and many uninsured people
did not have access to any kind of medical facility (namely the one who did
not have a medi- care insurance was condemned to die!).
Socialism
has all the advantages of communism. However, communism walks a step further.
In communism all the production means belong
to the government, namely to all! Today the production means belong
to the capitalists, namely the banks, the multinational companies, factories,
manufactories and generally to the economical Trusts. Contrary, in communism
they belong to the state. That, consequently, means that in communism all
the profits go to the people and not to the economical Trusts.
With that profits all the goods of communism develop, such as free educational
system in all the levels (I remind that higher education in most countries
is private and it is paid!), free access to health facilities (today
health system is manipulated by drug and insurance companies!), jobs for
all people (today unemployment rates are high!), free accommodation/
apartments for all (I remind that house loans and mortgages were the reason
for the recent economic crisis!), access to sport facilities for all
(today sport is manipulated as well by the economical Trust that sponsorthe
athletes!) and even holidays for all (in communism many people had free
vacations!).
Of course
all these are ideal; however we mustn’t forget that many of these did occur
in former communistic countries. Many of these facilities already occur in
many countries that partly adopted socialism, such as the Scandinavia (e.g.
in Sweden).
However, communism, as an economical system, has a great
disadvantage. The disadvantage is, in simple words, that the employees are
paid irrespectively their efficiency and productivity. That means that a lazy
and a hard worker are paid the same money! That is the real reason why communism
totally failed as an economic system and why communistic countries neither
had a competitive economy, nor exported goods to other countries.
This
disadvantage needs to change and workers/ employees in ‘modern communism’
need to be paid according to their efficacy and productivity. If not, people will not
have any motivation to work, they will be lazy and the productivity will fall.
Another
disadvantage of communism was that all the former communistic countries actually
ended up to dictatorships. Communism, as a system, didn’t adopt the ideas
of democracy, so it was easy to be manipulated by a nomenclature of politicians
and end up to a dictatorship. History shows that Stalin was a great manslaughter
as Hitler! Tsaouseskou in Romania was a dictator as well. Castro in Cuba was
also a dictator. By the way in Romania, all the profits seem not to go to
the people, but to the dictator’s palace! After all in former communistic
countries was supposed that everyone was equal, however seems that the people
who were members of the communistic political party were more equal than the
other!
In communistic
Russia the opponents were executed, or exiled and sent to gulags to Siberia
or enclosed to mental illness clinics. Furthermore, citizens in all former communistic
countries never had the chance to evaluate, assess and appraise the government,
e.g. with polls or elections. But a government that is not elected
regularly by the citizens is a dictatorship.
However, in this text we will not move further on analyzing former communistic
countries. This is useless, because
all the former communistic countries were dictatorships and had nothing to
do with the notions that Marx and Lenin wrote in their books about communism.
Marx and Lenin created a system that applied to the endless economical
national resources of Russia, that do not seem to be everywhere so fluent
(such as in Cuba!). Furthermore, they did not consider the 2 severe
disadvantages of communism, namely the fact that everyone was paid the same
regardless his/her productivity and effectiveness, and also the fact that
communism was a different system from democracy, so without the ideas and
notions of democracy it quickly ended up to a dictatorship.
We need
to establish and create a new system: ‘modern communism’. ‘Modern communism’
is a modified form of former communism. ‘Modern communism; does not need to be a system
outside democracy. If it isn’t, it will surely end up to a dictatorship and
to fascism! It needs to be merged with democracy and work with all the
democratically ideas and notions. An example that socialism hasn’t merged
with democracy is Cuba which is a dictatorship where Castro rules everything,
even though he isn’t elected regularly by anyone! Contrary, a modern country
where many ideas of socialism have adopted and merged with democracy is
Sweden, where socialism worked perfectly.
Another
problem of communism is the national economical resources. These are important
for a country to depend on its self, make factories and support an economy. Many communistic countries
had a few national economical resources and consequently that condemned their
economy to depend on importing economical resources from other countries.
This was a great problem for the economy’s development. Even today,
Cuba has no national recourses (except sugar!) and it’s condemned to have
a destroyed economy (and this makes its citizens to jump up on a boat and
go to the USA!). However, national
recourses are something that we can’t change. It is kind of inherited!
However, in order socialism to function properly and in order not become a
dictatorship, this system needs the following conditions:
1. Exploitation (to take advantage) of the natural
resources. For example, in Greece there is plenty of oil, gas and precious
minerals and metals worth perhaps of 300 billion Euros (oil can be exploited
at least after 5 years) that the government hasn’t exploited yet.
2. The
salary of the employee to be proportional to their efficiency and their productivity,
including bonus for productivity. Otherwise, the lazy and the hardworking
will be rewarded the same and so the productivity will be low.
3. The profit from the exploitation (of taking
advantage) of the natural resources must really belong to the people, namely
to all.
4. To avoid speculation, the producers (especially
in agriculture) need to be organized into cooperatives and earn the profit
without intermediaries. Otherwise, from the field to the shelf at the
supermarket the prices will launched and profits will go to middlemen speculators.
5. The power will be controlled by labor unions
that must not be affiliated to political parties (so that they don’t have
political manipulation, such as in Greece) but will be elected directly
by the employees and will be representatives of their interests.
6. The profits from the exploitation (of taking
advantage) of the natural resources will go directly to the people (namely
to all) with benefits such as free access to health (e.g. free access to hospitals),
free education (and lifelong learning), free meals, free accommodation in
housing (with heating, water and electricity), free summer vacations, free
access to sports facilities etc.
7. In any case the profits from the exploitation
(of taking advantage) of the natural resources will not go to the government
officers or to the political parties.
8. In socialism there will not be homeless people.
Everyone will have an apartment to stay and food to eat.
8. To exploit (taking advantage of) the natural
resources the state needs to built factories, industries and industries.
9. Access to Work is a right for all people.
There will be no unemployment. The State will ensure that there is work for
everyone.
10. Finally recalled (for those who do not know
or deliberately ignore) socialism is the preliminary stage of communism,
and applies those things that were written by Marx and Lenin in their theories.
With the above changes – particularly the no2 (‘the salary of the employee to be proportional to their efficiency and
their productivity’) we create a slightly different and more effective
socialistic system that I call ‘modern communism’! Otherwise socialism
will be a kind of dictatorship as the one of Tsausesku in Romania, or Stalin
in Russia or Castro in Cuba.
Also, in socialism people do not need to be atheists as in communism, but
everyone can believe to the religion he/she wishes.
NOTE
Much information mentioned is taken from media reports, and their reliability cannot be completely assessed. The viewers of this article are requested not to accept a priory any information and opinion written in this text if first they don’t ascertain it from reliable sources such as newspaper articles, books, TV and internet reports etc. The writer in order to support his notions in many issues over exaggerates. This text is subjective and contains the personal opinions of the author which the viewers aren’t obligated to accept.
For the reason that is mentioned above, the writer has published the text ‘STEREOTYPES, BIAS AND GENERALIZATION’ (you can find on the same site) in order to show that things aren’t black or white.
You can
watch the TV show ‘Apokalyptiko Deltio of the journalist Giannis Papagiannis
every day (except weekends) at 10:00 p.m. (local time of Greece) live at the
site http://www.extra3tv.gr
Also you
can watch the TV show of the Greek politician Vasilis Leventis live at the
site http://www.extra3tv.gr every Sunday at 11:40 p.m. (local time of Greece) or
you can watch videos with his show (along with other interviews with him)
at his site www.antidiaploki.gr.
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http://www.eurocapital.gr/index.php/permalink/35307.html?print&output_type=rss
2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_economy
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http://www.tanea.gr/oikonomia/article/?aid=4619462
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http://www.newstime.gr/?i=nt.el.article&id=27711
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http://elpida-politeias.gr/text30
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http://www.chatmania.gr/article28.html
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http://www.tanea.gr/ellada/article/?aid=4655065
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http://www.newsbeast.gr/financial/arthro/225230/sto-90--i-pithanotita-hreokopias-tis-elladas/
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