Capitalism vs Socialism
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Capitalism vs socialism in simple terms according to Islam

I lived in America for eight years and I have learned many valuable things and I very much appreciated most of their virtues and I witness and generally speaking, that the American people have the most advanced culture, attitude, and mentality and there is nothing to deny or feel bad and/or jealous about, they naturally deserved it and earned it. But, in spite of that, I assure you that America as a culture, way of thinking and way of life and -just like the rest of world nations and religions- are seriously lacking... lacking Truth, GOD'S guidance and therefore lacking wisdom and Righteousness.

Now that there are more people and less resources, the capitalistic system and the so-called American dream and reckless irresponsible so-called free-spirit mentality and life-style have become closely associated with immorality, lust, and evil self-indulgence. People, including increasing numbers of Americans are realizing that it is one thing to appreciate and believe in RESPONSIBLE GOOD AND GENUINE freedom and to use such a VITAL human need to deceive the masses by false-hopes of material prosperity into degrading recklessness, corruption and chaos.

Beside those who are naive, shallow, gullible and blind-followers who try to imitate the American culture by imitating the worst aspect of it instead of the best, many rational logical and decent people are realizing that although having achieved some considerable success in the past, and in spite of all the valid great aspects of the culture which should be maintained and developed, the system as a whole is fundamentally bankrupt and NOT good enough to sustain success because the system by its own nature is driven by greed and selfishness more than anything else. Again, in the name of the American dream and the American free-spirit and free-market, people are experiencing an ever-increasing suffering from increasing financial injustice and hardships and hence political injustice.

The century Big bubble of deception is being burst and the American themselves are more responsible than anyone else to rescue their nation before the natural law of cause and effect take its course in the inevitable rapid deterioration and collapse of such a nation. With all due respect to some of the sincere and unaware individuals, in spite of all the claims of the main principles of the establishment and their allies and the claims of moral-ism and sense of reverence, the reality remains that the increasing over-all elements that dominate and drive the system are greed and selfishness.

Business ventures is one thing and capitalism is another. The business concept is acceptable as long as it is checked by serious fair and social measures and as long as money comes next to equality, righteousness and the well-being of all people. Who in his right mind would accept a system that allows the rich ones to have a better education, better health treatment, a better legal representation and more political influence?

There is no detailed economical system in GOD'S message but there are some fundamental clear commandment and guidelines as to how to best deal with the economical issues to ensures equal distribution of wealth. I'm not an economy expert, but believe me, fundamentally, it is common sense, basic and simple math that most people can realize.

The Socialist economical system is more just and more humane economical system and not like the capitalistic system that is unjust and based on greed and selfishism. The economical system in any nation has a great impact of the social system and it is as clear as day light that capitalism which is based on greed and selfishness is having a serious negative inpact.

Although and just like any economical system, capitalism is able to function for a some times but, ultimately, it is self-destructive and doomed to failure... why?

Because it is an unfair, unjust and inhumane system that encourages greed and selfishness. It is inevitable that profit will be the dominant factor in this system, not justice and equality. Money will be the god and profit is his heaven!

It is also a simple math that ultimately, based on the capitalistic system, most of the wealth will continue to accumulate in the hands of a very few if not one person and we all know that money is power, a power that can manipulate people and can greatly influence and dominate any political system.

Capitalism is evil because it encourages greed and selfishism and it allow crooked people who are not obligated by religious, moral, and humane guidelines to take advantage and dominate this wild and profit-based system and therefore, the world will eventually be ruled by evil, crooked, careless, inhumane, greedy, selfish and corrupted people.

How just, fair, and how humane it is for one person to mass as much as $100 Billion in a matter of few years while others are struggling to make a living and others are suffering from poverty and illness!!??... is he or she that much hard working and that much smarter!!??

GOD'S destiny is one things and creating such evil is another.

The two evil factors that sustain the capitalistic system is the greed of the investor who continues to seek profit to continue to increase his capital, and the false dreams of the worker who is not only increasingly losing his chance of becoming a capitalist but also losing his job and salary for various capitalistic realities such as down-sizing and out sourcing etc etc.

Capitalism and in-spite of all the propaganda is OBVIOUSLY evil and is a MAJOR causes of corruption.

Just look around you and see how money is accumulating in the hands of corrupted crooked and greedy people while good and decent people are losing on daily bases because they are not crooked nor are they greedy enough to seek money and profits and because they have other more important things in life to worry about like gaining knowledge and wisdom, worshiping GOD, taking good care of their children, and doing social work!!!

On the other hand, Socialism represents a great more just, and more fair economical system. There is no need for individual ownership when not necessary and when it can cause greed and selfishness. There is no rat-race and constant competition for the  wrong reasons.

People collectively own the general wealth and the public has ownership of the means of production and distribution which will ensure equal distribution of the basic human needs such as food, shelter, education, health, communication, and transportation.

That does not necessarily eliminate individual ownership but very much control it to were is does not get out of hand and becomes the dominate evil force and it will not be on the account of the other people's basic needs. The main fundamental concept and goal is equal distribution of wealth and when private ownership is useful and consistent with that goal then it can be a useful method.

Surely success of any economical system is determined by the political system, and the success of any political system is determined by the quality of the people and the quality of their believe system. So if the great Islamic believe system is implemented in a democratic political system to establish the right form of socialism then you have the ultimate combination and the ultimate recipe of ultimate success.

It is well worth mentioning here that usery (interest) is forbidden in Islam, it is an EVIL concept. Look around you and see the frenzy and craziness of greed and selfishism, look how governments and companies are using and abusing people in every form of senseless hysteria of useless products that are enslaving them. They are being used to manufacture them and buy them at the same time.

Look how large companies took advantage of people's selfishness and carelessness by encouraging it andcapitalized on it. Look how car companies selling cars like donuts using and abusing great resources and causing much pollution all over the world while it is much more efficient and sufficient and much better for the environment to use public forms of transportation and much less cars and much less roads and much less fuel!

Just imagine how much money and resources being used for that many cars, roads, and all the noise, pollution, and accidents they cause while public transportation means much less vehicles that substitute the countless ones and save everyone much resources, pollutions and all kinds of problems.

Look how much resources are being abused and how much pollution is being caused while people continue to loose their sanity and peace of mind and being enslaved by this materialistic way of life. look around you and see the lack of morals and observe the social hypocrisy, greed, and selfishness.

Why and how in the world is it fair and logical that a TV host, a singer, a movie star, sports player earns 100s of millions of dollars... what exactly are they contributing to the society to entitle them for such a massive income, and what kind of impact does that much money in the hand of such people will have on society when those type of people are not exactly known for their high moral standards!!

So basically, the capitalistic machine continue to deceive the people into bad habits through the power of media and commercials, and continue to exploit them like they are worse than Sheep!!... Sheep have no alternative but people have a great alternative.

Don't get me wrong, the people are getting and will continue to get what they desire and deserve because ultimately, they are the ones who are being the fuel that continue to feed this evil machine, but I must sympathies with them, it is very dominating and over-whelming and it seems that many of them did not know any better. Not to mention that the communist countries where not the best example, and worse yet, they gave socialism a bad name that it did not deserve.

Obviously, and contrary to the popular believe and the propaganda deception, socialism does not mean any less progress, on the contrary, it means much more progress in a balanced way while it also means much less waste of time, effort, resources and lss pollution.

Under a socialist system, there will be a more balanced and focused effort on development where the majority of people need it, so basically, there will be much more equality development, while there will be much less wast of time, effort, and resources and much less pollution not mentioning the positive impact on such system on the rest of the world

Just imagine what that means in practical actual terms!

Some people claim that only the unfortunate ones believe in and call for socialism, that might be true and natural because they experienced the evil of capitalism, and on the other hand, it can be said that only the fortunate ones and the crooked ones who take advantage of such an evil system to gain wealth are the ones who believe in and call for capitalism.

Some people claim that socialism are for losers, and to those we say, and just for the sake of argument, we say that being a losers is much better than being, unfair, crooked, corrupted and evil!

Some of them claim that socialism does not work because people will lack their motivations, to them we say, there will always be motivation, good and genuine motivation based on the rightful values instead of greed and selfishness, and yes, socialism and even the entire Islamic system or any system for that matter has the potential to fail if and when is done the wrong way.

Islam is all about giving, sharing, charity, caring, equality, and compassion. Greed and selfishness are controlled by various ways to maintain a balanced productive society of genuine equality. Valuable and scarce resources will be used in the utmost sufficient ways for that which is of REAL benefit and progress of the entire society, and not just for few companies and few individuals.

According to my knowledge, there are 5 major reasons that sustain the capitalistic system:

(1)By its nature, it does work for sometime as long as people are ignorant of the alternative and willing to put up with it.

(2) Because there is abundance of wealth like the case in America when first discovered and where its bad side is not as noticeable.

(3) There is NO alternative practical system to expose its reality.

(4) The ignorance of the people and thier constant in vain hope to be capitalists one day.

(5)The capitalistic machine of constant deception and manipulation of people's hopes and needs.

As I said before, I and most likely you are not economical experts BUT, please pay attention to the following fundamental vital FACT. It is a fact that any system is dependant on the way it is implemented, in another word, if socialism is good by nature, it can be abused by the wrong people BUT, if capitalism is Evil by nature, then not matter how good it is implemented the results will be evil and obviously the opposite can be true.

We are humans and we are volunerable and that is why we need the best laws and regulations that will protect us from each others and especially protect us from the evil ones among us who are always ready to abuse and manipulate the system.

Many people are confused about the issue/concept of freedom, obviously it one of the greatest values BUT, it can be used as a tool of MAJOR deception (and it is being used as such in the USA and many other countries ).

We all know that there can NOT be uncontrolled freedom and the MAIN Goal is to achieve Maximum GOOD freedom, but not evil, chaotic, and corrupting freedom. Although it is true that it is inevitable that there will always be social, political, and economical differences between people, it is also true that it does not have to be accessive and distructive.

We don not live in a perfect world, but we are responsible of making the best out of it by finding the right ways, methods, and systems to minimize evil and injustice as much as possible, so in-spite what the capitalist claim, there must be a much more just economical way to reduce the evil, corrupting, horrible, and unfair differences in people's financial situations and there MUST be an alternative to this greedy, selfish, evil, and corrupting chaotic way of life that is being pursued and propagated in the name of freedom, prosperity, progress, and in the name of claiming that there is not better alternative.

I assure you that there is a MUCH MUCH MUCH better alternative for EVERYONE and the basics of the socialist system speaks for themselves. With the right sincere effort, it can be fine-toned to make the best out of it.

Look around you how the whole world is sinking into a chaotic, injustice, inequality, and all kinds of evil and corruption in the same of capitalism. Again, capitalism is moraless by nature and evil at its core because it is based fundamentally on greed and selfishness and we all know how evil, bad and destructive greed and selfishnese is and how evil it can be. On the other hand Islam is based on goodness, equality, righteousness, justice, and fairness.

Finally

Socialism by all means is a humane and a more-Islamic system.

Capitalism is not only unIslamic but it is pure evil.

Of course, the Islamic-democratic-socialist-system which is yet
to be determined will be unique and different from
all other past and present social systems.

Till that day comes ... KEEP HOPE ALIVE,
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