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Socialism
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Battle for the South continues as Master Sergeant Bennet make his way north to Dallas. He reflects upon the changes the government instituted to handle a natural disaster of this magnitude. Here to talk to us today about socialism, the theory and the application, is Johnny Jacks author of Absolute Anarchy.
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~Johnny Jacks~
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Socialism means different things depending on who you ask. Johnny wrote a detailed article on the topic at AbsoluteAnarchyBook.com. In general, people use the word for the results of societies run on a socialist economic system.
There are three basic economic models. In socialism, and related ideas like Marxism and communism, property is collectively owned and shared out by the state. In fascism, people can own property and run businesses, but only with the approval of a governing board or dictator. In a pure free market, there is little to no government, and individuals do business without interference.
The theory behind socialism began in 1796, when Gracchus Babeuf wrote the Manifesto of Equals. Karl Marx expanded those ideas in 1848 in the Manifesto of the Communist Party, which is the root of calls for redistribution of wealth today.
No country runs on a pure model. In the United States you can own a business and personal property, but government sets many of the rules, and it also runs some enterprises, such as the Postal Service, Amtrak and the VA hospitals.
The federal role in business has grown since the progressive movement of the 1890s, when antitrust laws were passed to keep monopolies in check. Later administrations added more programs and agencies, and Americans still disagree about how far that should go.
The takeaway is to know what each system actually means, and to look at how real countries have fared under different mixes. Making a country strong takes more than any one leader. It takes streamlined government, corporate responsibility and personal values built on innovation and charity.
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~Johnny Jacks~
Johnny Jacks is a product of WWII. Born in Alabama in 1944 five months before D-Day to semi-literate sharecropper parents. In the 1940s and early 1950s, he lived self-reliantly, off-grid, off city water, without indoor plumbing, and without assistance from a welfare state, which, of course, didn’t exist in those days.
On his seventeenth birthday, Johnny enlisted in the Air Force, later transferring to the Army, where he became a Special Forces soldier, a Green Beret, and began a career serving on Special Forces A-teams in Europe, Asia, and Central America, including an assignment to Special Forces A-team 102 in Vietnam in 1967 and 1968. He has lived or spent extended amounts of time in third world areas in Asia, Central and South America, and Africa, interfacing with people who live on the edge of survival.
After retiring from the Army in 1982, he worked for several government agencies over the next twenty-five years in significant positions involving high-level national security and emergency preparedness programs. These positions provided him with knowledge of continuity of government and continuity of operations at the senior level of national leadership.
This combination of off-grid, self-reliant living; guerrilla warfare expertise; and national security policy, which gives him a unique insight into today’s individual and group prepper survival needs and requirements.
Johnny wrote Absolute Anarchy, The Preppers Guide to Surviving the Coming Collapse. Absolute Anarchy is available on Amazon, in paper and Kindle versions, and is the most comprehensive prepper information resource available today.
The books website, AbsoluteAnarchyBook.com, contains a gateway to a large set of web links related to each chapter that vastly expands upon the book’s instructional information. The first four chapters and the supplemental reading are posted on the website.
