The idea of stalinism is the basis of a good society.

Thanks to my opponent for the argument. Introduction Stalinism was a terrible form of society. Stalin based his ideology and policies on centralization, totalitarianism, and the pursuit of communism. Stalin was a brutal form of dictator and imposed his beliefs on his people and whoever opposed him or his beliefs would be tortured or killed. This is not a basis for a good society. Stalin, in my opinion, was worse than Hitler. People were not free they were restricted through Stalin’s bureaucracy. My arguments will consist of explaining why Stalinism is not a basis for a good society and why socialism has failed. Stalin’s 30-year rule as dictator featured thousands of atrocities, purges, expulsions, forced displacements, imprisonment in labor camps, manufactured famines, torture, acts of mass murder and massacres. The people of Russia were afraid of Stalin and his brutal ideology. Stalin had a secret police and killed anyone who was a threat to his power. People did not have a freedom of speech or the freedom to do anything for that matter because they were fearful that they would be tortured or killed. The basis of a good society can consists of these things justice, equity, freedom, rule of law, economic opportunity, reciprocity, prosperity, critical thinking, ethical standards, concern for good citizenship, right to defense, right to private property, liberty etc. Where do you see these in Stalinism? Stalin pushed for industrialization and collectivization, which resulted in USSR becoming an industrial power. Stalin’s economic changes coincided with millions of people imprisoned and deported to more remote locations. The sudden change in agriculture disrupted food production and resulted in the 1932-1933 Soviet famine. Why socialism/command economy is a failure. Socialism has failed many times in the past. Socialism lost the cold war and the fall of the USSR. At the same time Vietnams socialism failed. China’s economy began to fall until they passed a new law that would allow entrepreneurship, their economy is now thriving under capitalist reforms. North Korea, people are starving in the streets, virtually no healthcare, high unemployment rates. Socialism is the distribution of wealth. This allows the disincentive to work and do a good job. Under capitalism people have to work for their money, simply if they don’t do a good job they will be fired. Entrepreneurship requires a great deal of work and passion to create the best possible good or service so people will purchase their products. Socialism consist of no competition between companies which means workers will not have to work as hard. Under socialism people are forced to buy/sell from the government. In free capitalistic nations people are free to buy what they want. This leaves the incentive for corporate owners to produce quality goods and services so people will buy. Same concept goes for healthcare. There is not one socialistic nation with quality healthcare, which is not the basis for a good society. There can really be no worse economy to merge into Stalin’s Ideology. Stalin ran on the principles of a command economy (socialism). Under Stalin and his command economy, only 6% of household had more than one room. Peoples living conditions were extremely poor. Under his socialistic society healthcare was expanded but people were not treated well because the doctors were so afraid of wrongdoing. Doctors had to go by the rule book. You’re going to have to go into more detail about the child conditioning. Ive never seen “Brave New World”. If by child conditioning you mean like brainwashing then I would absolutely disagree. You can’t brainwash people into being happy. You can’t brainwash people to believe that a form of Stalinism is a good regime. “The crushing of the idea of rebellion in the individual would in fact prevent him from rebelling and prevent him from feeling the need to rebel as a person.” This would in fact, create more of an incentive to rebel. If a dictator is that persistent into trying to get someone to not rebel then that dictator wouldn’t care into that persons well-being.Any dictator who tortures and kills his own people certainly don't have an value in life. A country should be ran by the people not a ruthless regime. Freedom is true happiness and a basis for a good society.http://www.ibtimes.com...http://en.wikipedia.org...https://www.msu.edu...