Socialism in Canada

Socialism in Canada

In the past few economics classes we have learned and talked about the importance of budgeting and how different governments run. We have discussed how communism, fascism, socialism, and capitalism work and how they can change a government greatly. We learned about the importance of budgeting, how to compromise, how to share power roles and how to split up a budget according to importance.

Is Socialism Accepted?

The article I am reviewing is called “NDP votes to take ‘socialism’ out of party constitution”.

The NDP government voted earlier last month to take the word socialist or socialism out of the parties’ constitution. The party believed that referring to socialism in its constitution is controversial and that they need to take steps to modernize the system. The party believes that the public react negatively towards reference of socialism in Canada and they believe by changing the constitution, people will be more willing to vote NDP in the 2015 election.

The talk about changing the constitution began after the 2011 election. Jack Layton believed that the reason Canadians where not comfortable with voting NDP were because the parties view where out dated and old, So Jack Layton took action and tried to modernize the views of the NDP and what the NDP stand for. He died shortly after. However his view lived on and 960 out of 1148 people agreed to change and modernize the constitution.

Bill Blaikie a socialist delegate spoke out on the matter. Mr. Blaikie believes that is it is a good thing to change the definition of socialism in the constitution of the NDP because he believes the definition is out dated and they need to show Canadians of a more democratic socialist government. Mr. Blaikie believes most people don’t fully understand what it is to be a socialist and think people would like it if they knew the affect it would have on everything.

This article coincides perfectly with what we are learning because earlier last week we all did projects on government system, we are also learning about budgeting and how to deal with money. Socialism is one of the government systems we did. It also deals with money. As Said before socialism deals with the distribution of wealth so instead of one person being in charge of the so called budget, the entire public population is in charge of the money circulation.

What is Socialism?

Socialism is an economic system that is based on social ownership, state ownership, and citizen ownership of equity. It means that everything is owned by the public rather that the 1 percent owning and running everything. It consists of production and distribution of goods and services to use not just for private profit.

Socialism in Canada

Socialism in Canada would not work. We live in a country where everything is run and operated by money, so we live in a capitalistic government system. Everything is dictated on whether you have enough money, whether there is enough funding, and if you get paid when you’re done. Even if we could establish a Socialistic system it would soon turn to communism. In a socialistic system there is no leader, no one person to make a quick decision if needed. The problem is someone would have to make a decision and take it upon themselves to lead and guide the country. This is why socialism doesn’t always work.

My opinion

In my opinion I find socialism to be a good idea, sharing the power and wealth. However I don`t think it has a chance of working. People are very greedy and this greed leads people to love possessions and especially money. If everything was owned and shared by everyone then nothing would advance because there would be no economic gain for the people. For example technology and medicine would not progress. I think that a social government would begin and a communist government would take over. My opinion on the article is that I think the NDP did the right thing and changed the constitution because most Canadians don’t know what socialism is, if the party were instead able to teach people what socialism is completely about I think they would have a better chance winning!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ndp-votes-to-take-socialism-out-of-party-constitution-1.1385171

-Daniel Kosinski