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Saturday, April 14, 2012

Is it possible to have a welfare state without a huge bureaucracy? | LinkedIn Answers | LinkedIn

Is it possible to have a welfare state without a huge bureaucracy? | LinkedIn Answers | LinkedIn


Is it possible to have a welfare state without a huge bureaucracy?

Karl Marx, Lenin and Trotsky did not envisage equality being driven by an all powerful state apparatus. That was Stalin's invention....and Stalin could not have been bothered about utopia of communism anyway...he only wanted to feed his own megalomania through the instrument of a pervasive bureaucracy.


Unwittingly all modern states have copied Stalin and created massive state infrastructures. The US in a sense is almost half a Stalinist state as the Government spends 41% of GDP. The figures are not very different for other European countries. So shockingly all democracies pay lip service to liberty and freedom and revile Stalin but then flatter him by copying his methods.


India is worse as Government handles 60% of GDP and the constitution also demands a socialist(meaning Stalinist) structure. The real aim is to keep the megalomania of the ruling dynasty going. No wonder they pull out all the stops and hyper ventilate when some feeble old man of 74 years starts talking of fighting corruption


China has no confusion. It is a Stalinist state and is proud of it. The state has decided to beat the West and is well on its way to achieving that goal. They do not have the hypocrisy of worshiping freedom and liberty and they surreptitiously overturning these through massive bureaucratic deployment.


Ownership of assets by a few is bad because it gives the owners control of the markets. But ownership of assets by a powerful bureaucracy is worse because they they are backed by guns and tanks.


Guns and Tanks do not help the economy when they are pointed inwards(in support of bureaucracy). These weapons are useful only when used against outsiders. The Chinese have internalized this. Their economy and their guns are synchronized and focused externally...no wonder they are winning.

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