{"id":10045,"date":"2019-05-09T07:22:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T11:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=10045"},"modified":"2019-05-09T19:10:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T23:10:26","slug":"607-why-social-ism-and-capital-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/10045","title":{"rendered":"607 &#8211; Why social ISm and capital ISN&#8217;T"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/607-bonanza-168x100.jpg\" alt=\"Bonanza\" width=\"168\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10046\" \/><audio controls preload=\"none\"><source src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20190509-justRIGHT-607-WHYsocialISmANDcapitalISNT.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>Socialism&#8217;s growing appeal is often difficult to understand, particularly given capitalism&#8217;s demonstrated social, economic, and political superiority.  However, the resistance to capitalism may have its roots in something far deeper than a failure to recognize its virtues and benefits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sad to say, most people have no clear idea of what capitalism and socialism actually are.<\/strong>  Bathed in the contradictions of living in a mixed economy, many attribute the successes of capitalism to socialism, and socialism\u2019s failures to capitalism.  In the absence of an objective understanding of each \u2018ism,\u2019 this suggests a psychological or emotional association that is the source of their bias. <\/p>\n<p>As always, the first rule in the art of political persuasion is \u2018<strong>define or be defined<\/strong>.\u2019 By allowing the \u2018socialist\u2019 Left to define the terms of the discussion, the \u2018capitalist\u2019 Right has been placed in an almost insurmountable disadvantage.<\/p>\n<p>Consider that with their simple positioning of the words \u2018socialism\u2019 against \u2018capitalism,\u2019 socialists have already won a critical part of the debate.  After all, the two \u2018isms\u2019 have little to do with each other, since <strong>\u2018social\u2019 and \u2018capital\u2019 are incompatible concepts.<\/strong> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This alone has consequences that cannot be understated, consequences that work to the advantage of the Left and to the detriment of the Right.<\/p>\n<p>To correct the epistemological advantage unfairly enjoyed by socialism, it is necessary to realign the terms of reference in a way that is Just Right and actually makes sense.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/607-topics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/topics.gif\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/607-clips-credits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/clips_and_credits.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socialism&#8217;s growing appeal is often difficult to understand, particularly given capitalism&#8217;s demonstrated social, economic, and political superiority. However, the resistance to capitalism may have its roots in something far deeper than a failure to recognize its virtues and benefits. Sad to say, most people have no clear idea of what capitalism and socialism actually are. <a href='https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/10045' class='excerpt-more'>[Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,25,69,28,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-capitalism-politics","category-economics","category-latest","category-socialism","issues-capitalism","issues-socialism-2","category-12-id","category-25-id","category-69-id","category-28-id","category-120-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10045"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10051,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045\/revisions\/10051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}