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    playing the role of providing “free education, subsidized health care for the elderly, and higher taxes on the rich”, the capitalist believe the government; a socialist economy lacks the effective use of economic resources, therefore providing a system of government that provides individual rights, objective laws, and a free market economy would be more efficient. In a capitalist economy, an individual is allowed to own a property, and have the freedom to organize and operate for profit purpose; emphasis

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    February 2018 Capitalism v Communism Economic Systems Two of the world’s most popular and diverse economic systems are Communism and Capitalism. Capitalism, or a free enterprise economy, is an economic system constructed by the freedoms of the marketplace. The capitalist economy has several promising advantages. The capitalist government subtly changes and adjusts to the current conditions with ease. A communist system can be defined as an economic system where many, if not all, factors of production

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    There are countries with different kinds of parties, such as a communist country, and different types of economic systems. For example, capitalism is one type of economic system, and not every country recognizes or supports it. However, the countries with a capitalism economic system believe that capitalism is the key to the development of the country and creates the wealth of nations. For instance, the book named The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

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    get is from the business bosses i.e., the capitalists who are integral part of the American economy. Capitalism is the most powerful tool for gaining funds as they are profit oriented. Corruption thus occurs when there are

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    Education: Equal Opportunity? The U.S. Educational system has historically divided into two objective groups. The first objective focuses on increasing opportunity. The second objective focuses on stabilizing an unequal society. The objective of increasing opportunity has mainly emphasized on practition more than discussions of schooling. Thomas Jefferson implemented a plan in 1779, it promised the laboring class more opportunity to attend higher education. The point of the plan was to rake out

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    that fascism way of the political system is the preferable ideology for the society by depicting the class struggles between capitalists and labours. Thus, the movie was often interpreted as a propaganda movie and being criticized. At the beginning of the movie, it highlights some differences between one category of people called heads, which is a metaphor that represents rulers or capitalists and the other one called hands, which represents workers in a capitalist society. The former, who live in

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    Today using modern time philosophy and the way we think, I believe you cannot have a pure capitalist or socialist system by definition but instead run a mixed economy caring about different characteristics of the two in order to form a civilized yet, productive society. The definition of capitalism would be an economic system in which private individuals own the factors of production and decide how to use them within legislated limits. Laissez faire is another name that was given by Scottish philosopher

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    Karl Marx Alienation

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    lifestyle. He explained that the economic system was flawed and that the rise of capitalism would inevitably be the cause of society’s issues. However, out of all his theories, there is one that is still evident in today’s society, alienation. Marx argued that alienation was fueled by capitalism, as workers were manipulated in order to improve efficiency and increase productivity. The workers’ labour and the resulting products in fact belong to the capitalist. In Marx’ “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts

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    This requires choices to realistically be made, as determined by the country’s economic system. The economic system basically refers to the allocative mechanism by which the people, businesses and government of a country make choices. Economists have recognized three distinct types of economic system – the capitalist economy, the socialist economy and the mixed economy (Bamford & Grant 2010). In a capitalist economy, households and firms usually decide the allocation of resources. They interact as

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    Economic Systems: Capitalism & Socialism Ownership is key to both capitalism and socialism. In a capitalist economy, the means of production, facilities, technology, land etc., are privately owned. The primary goal is for the owners to make a profit (Smith, 1910). Though that is not to say that owners are the only beneficiaries in aa capitalist economy. According to George Reisman in his Treatise on economics, you do not have to own a means of production to receive their benefits, you merely have

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