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An example depicting what socialism offered. The dark bat-like creature devouring the poor man symbolizing capitalism while the angel, which attempts to save the same man, symbolizes socialism.

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A symbol from late in the Industrial Revolution showing what people believed socialism was doing to the country; the beast being socialism.

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A comic showing the differences between Socialism and Capitalism and how each disagree with the other.

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An example of a meeting between socialists.

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A small comic of the way most spent their lives when working textile mills.

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-By Ace Coel

In this new, and oddly fascinating topic of government and politics, I have little to say. Times have been hard for everyone in this day and age, but socialism… socialism may just be what the people, people like myself, need to get us out of the gutter. Socialism allows us of lower class to be self sufficient, we won’t have to worry about the medical bill from being run over with that carriage, or that dreadful case of influenza. We wouldn’t have to worry about losing our home, about making our families starve. So many problems… gone with only a bit more work.

Unfortunately, this new form of government does nothing to help the poor, unfortunate souls in the factories, nor does it reform the use of child labor. Personally, I find there are few reasons to agree with this new belief, but faith I still have.

Most actually say that the German philosopher, Karl Marx, started socialism, but in fact, the true architect of a socialist order was Vladimir Lenin, who first faced the practical difficulties of organizing an economic system without the driving incentives of profit seeking or the self-generating constraints of competition. Lenin began from the long-standing delusion that economic organization would become less complex once the profit drive and the market mechanism had been dispensed with as,“self-evident,” he wrote, “the extraordinarily simple operations of watching, recording, and issuing receipts, within the reach of anybody who can read and write and knows the first four rules of arithmetic.” This is something I had felt needed to be shared.

I wish and hope and pray that socialism grows to be powerful, powerful enough that we as everyday people will no longer have to worry about our government. With a mindset filled with the dreams of this idea, I am certain it will take root in many and bloom into the greatest rose in Her Majesty’s garden.

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-By Valentine Ayers

New government ideals are spreading more and more throughout time and from them one special idea has come to light: Socialism. Though socialism is still a newer concept, it has grown in popularity. None would ever think about sharing what you earn, yet this idea that what’s yours is everyone’s… it’s intriguing. Of course, there are limits of sorts, from what we have learned, such as that you don’t share everything, your accommodations and personal belongings are still your own, but some of the money you make goes to those that are unable to pay for everyday needs such as food. Perhaps this isn’t as bad as many may think…
Today is another day that socialism spreads. There are people, known as socialists, that feed these ideas. Socialists' views on human nature distinguish them from their principal political rivals, the liberals and conservatives.While the latter two groups tend to hold that all humans are inherently self-interested and materialistic, socialists contend that these traits are products of social conditioning under capitalism. On this view, individuals act selfishly and competitively, not because it is in their nature to do so, but rather because they are encouraged and rewarded for such behavior.

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http://www.worldsocialism.org/english/what-socialism
http://cbc-inc.com/soc_origin.asp
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Socialism.html
http://www.newharmony-in.gov/about_new_harmony.php
http://science.jrank.org/pages/8088/Socialism.html
http://josotl.indiana.edu/index.php/imh/article/view/10250/14211
http://webs.bcp.org/sites/vcleary/ModernWorldHistoryTextbook/IndustrialRevolution/responsestoIR.html