The Late 19th Century: Does Socialism Really Work?

Glancing back towards the late 18th century early 19th century, it can be debated that Socialism does not work. During the late 18th early 19th century there were many socialist leaders that believed in human nature and that everything should be divided equally. One of the leaders were Robert Owen who was a social activist 1 that believed that he could mold human character but after 3 years his idea collapsed.2 Moving forward to the 20th century we can argue that there are many socialist countries like China, Canada, Finland and a few more. In this paper, I will elucidate what is socialism and give examples also. There are many reasons why they may and may not work, but it always makes us ask ourselves are we all equal? Socialism
This is one of the many reasons why socialism has failed in America. According to Seymour Martin Lipset, AEI Bradley Lecture Series (2000) he claims that “The axiom set down by Marx was based on his guessing that the cultures, the institutions, the politics of countries are determined by the basic or underlying structure, the level of technology or economic development. Hence, the culture of the most advanced, i.e., most developed, country, as determined by its substructure, will emerge in others as they industrialize or “modernize.”4 However I believe the same goes for European countries because Socialism starts out with good intentions and works for a while but then not everyone in the Socialistic community has the same ambitious, intelligence or ability as others so after a while people start to lose the enthusiasm and things start to fall apart so the once perfect community was filled with a lot of thinkers but not enough doers. Also the rich people were getting taxed and all of a sudden the people that were doing well have to go down to be in the same category as people that were lower than them. John Hawkins, 5 ways Socialism destroys societies (2014) fears that “When you loot the successful people in a society to give it to the less successful, you quite naturally reduce the number
Everyone were going to work and share the things they could and they would also do trades and their profits were put into common stocks so that everyone would have their own, since everyone were working together they were good but some people didn’t work together and were lazy, getting food and money but doing nothing to contribute and help their community so socialism didn’t work here. Eventually land was bought for everybody and they had to make their own money or food and that’s when things started to get better. A blogger on the Lubbock Journal Online, Donald R May (2011) points out that “It became evident during this first crop year that few worked hard to produce crops and other goods for the benefit of the Colony. As a result, there was not that much food and prosperity after that first growing season. They really had not achieved abundance that first year. Even the strong and the able had not worked very hard. There was resentment and squabbling among the settlers over what little they did have. Governor William Bradford realized Socialism was not going to work. He wisely abolished the Socialist principles on which the Plymouth Colony had been founded. Each family was then given a plot of land to farm and harvest for themselves. The settlers kept what they produced for themselves. The Colony quickly became