edgeworthy
Well-known member
Just so everyone is clear about this State Funded Centralised Healthcare is NOT Socialism.
The oldest extant system in the world was set up in 1883 by Otto von Bismarck. If anyone thinks that Germany's Iron Chancellor was in any was a Socialist then I would have to enquire as to which bridge they would like me to sell them!?
Notably, at the time the Socialists voted against this. As they did many of his social measures.
(Old age pensions, unemployment insurance, sick pay, disability & accident insurance etc.)
There is a line in The Internationale warning about such things.
(It can be argued that comprehensive Social Security is little more than the modern interpretation of "Bread and Circuses" that the establishment has always used to control the mob. Bismarck's thinking was naturally more sophisticated than this with loftier, yet more practical, aims.)
The oldest extant system in the world was set up in 1883 by Otto von Bismarck. If anyone thinks that Germany's Iron Chancellor was in any was a Socialist then I would have to enquire as to which bridge they would like me to sell them!?
Notably, at the time the Socialists voted against this. As they did many of his social measures.
(Old age pensions, unemployment insurance, sick pay, disability & accident insurance etc.)
There is a line in The Internationale warning about such things.
(It can be argued that comprehensive Social Security is little more than the modern interpretation of "Bread and Circuses" that the establishment has always used to control the mob. Bismarck's thinking was naturally more sophisticated than this with loftier, yet more practical, aims.)
