Socialism Is Not Harmful By Ronald Lankford

B) Summary: In the article, “Socialism is Not Harmful”, by Ronald D. Lankford, he emphasizes on many key points that many people seem to be very misinformed on Socialism. For example, a question asked “Doesn’t socialism meant that the government will own and run everything?” (Par.5). He responded by saying Democratic socialists do not want to create an all-powerful government to rule society, but do not want to have big corporations to do the same. He goes on to say that, Democratic socialists reject the belief of a centralized economy because of the inability for it to work. Another questions many critiques have on socialism is “Won't socialism be impractical because people will lose their incentive to work?” (par.16). He responded with a great sentence by saying people don’t work out of starvation or greed, but one the basis of responsibility and duty to their community and society. He also included employers should raise wages, offer benefits as well as improve the work environment, and that will incentives and encourage people to work. This article also includes some interesting perspectives on how socialism and capitalism work hand and hand, by creating many suitable and greatly appreciative benefits like paid sick days, weekends, family leave, and many others.

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I really love the explanation of how Democratic socialism does not automatically mean communism, and an all-powerful government ready to destroy everything, but a way for people to protect themselves from corporations only in it for the money. This article does a great job at shedding light at the ramifications of socialism in the job market, like the amount of benefits thanks to ‘socialist movements’. I would have loved to see what types of programs came from socialistic ideas like Social Security, and