What is Fascism
Fascism is not solely heavy handed military dictatorship over people. That's the apparent part, the tool. The real purpose of fascism is quite surprising, and its economic. In this article, you will see its details.
What is Republic
If you are not from USA, you have lower chances of being mistaken on definition of Republic. If you are from USA, it's high chance that you are misled due to a certain trend going on in US political sphere these days. "We are a Republic, not a democracy", is the catchphrase there these days. This catchphrase portrays a Republic as something 'magically' different than a Democracy.
What is Socialism
A lot of people don't know what Socialism is, and when they think they know, they confuse it with Communism. This article presents a properly accurate, simplified definition of Socialism for those who are new to politics and to those who are veterans.
What is Capitalism
A lot of people think Capitalism has something to do with 'freedom' or 'democracy', and all of them are flat out wrong. Capitalism does not have any common ground with these two concepts - it is an economic system which eventually renders these concepts impossible, as you will find out in this article.
What is Communism
Majority of the people in the west think Communism is the opposite of Democracy, and they are flat out wrong. The reality is quite different from what has been impressed upon the public. As you will see, the simplest definition of Communism does not leave any room for such mistakes - makes you wonder how they made public think totally the opposite.
What is Democracy
Many people in democratic countries cannot define democracy, despite claiming to know what it is. And even when in cases they get the core concept right, their definition contain numerous inaccuracies which lack knowledge of critical aspects of democracy. However, when boiled down to basics, an accurate and very simple explanation of democracy is possible.
Vote. You have no excuse. If you want change, VOTE! It DOES change things.
Vote! You have no excuse. If you think voting does not change anything, come read this and see how i will invalidate all the excuses you have. You will see how you have no reason not to vote.
How Wealth Corrupts Democracy
Imagine that you are a budding politician running for office. Election is coming up. You need to run a campaign. The smallest campaign for simplest political office costs around a million dollars or more. What are you going to do ? You are going to spend that money... Otherwise, no one will hear your name, no one will hear what you are saying about issues, and actually even the ones who know you will think that you don't have a chance to win. This or that way, you are going to spend that money .... But how ?
What is Democracy ? Communism ? Capitalism ? Do you really know ?
Face it : Chances are high that you DO think that you know what Democracy, Communism, Capitalism, Fascism are. In fact, you are pretty sure of it. In the end, you are very probably living in a democratic country or at least you were taught all of these during your education, right ? Well... Don't be so fast. The reality of the situation is, even in developed countries majority of the population can't properly define any of these concepts, and even the ones who are well-read, college-educated, informed (that's probably you !) have major misconceptions and make major mistakes when defining these concepts. Let's have a go and see how much of the below, you actually knew - its a long journey - however a fun roller coaster ride.
How did Wall Street bankrupt the World – and the US
You probably know by now that the crisis that entire world is suffering had broken out in 2008, started from Wall Street and it had something to do with very high risk mortgages which were sold to families who cannot pay for them, and entire world is going through a neverending, agonizing crisis and have […]