Socialism Does NOT Work | Theodore Dalrymple | Oxford Union
December 18, 2013
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as posted by the channelTheodore Dalrymple gives his argument that Socialism does not work.
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Theodore Dalrymple begins but highlighting the problems that Socialism claims to resolve. Socialism is a system by definition aims to benefit every member of society, however members of any society will have different opinions on what is beneficial for them. For socialism to work someone has to organise it and those organisers are very unlikely to act selflessly with just the pure interest of the people at hand, therefore it will not work. Theodore sums up that for socialism to work it needs ""all of the people are altruistic some of the time and some of the people are altruistic all of the time, that all of the people can be altruistic all of the time"".
Filmed on Thursday 28th November 2013
MOTION: This House Believes Socialism Will Not Work.
RESULT: Motion Defeated
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ABOUT THEODORE DALRYMPLE:
Influential writer, renowned for his persistently conservative philosophy. Anthony Daniels, who generally uses the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is an English writer and retired prison doctor and psychiatrist. He worked in a number of Sub-Saharan African countries as well as in the east end of London.
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