At work without these?
Military
Highways & roads
Police & Fire Depts
Public librarys
Bridges
US postal service
Student loans and grants
CIA
FBI
IRS
EPA
War
Garbage collection
Landfills
GI Bill
Public schools
Social Security
Corporate/business subsides
VA health care
Sewer System
Court System
The Polio Vaccine
...I can continue, but I'm sure y'all get the point. ALL of these and more are due to Socialism.
Again, thank goodness for socialism.
You've mentioned this obvious cookie-cutter talking point I've seen ten thousand times on the Internet, so let's examine that shall we?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_socialismThe history of socialism has its origins in the French Revolution of 1789 and the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution, although it has precedents in earlier movements and ideas. The Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848 just before the Revolutions of 1848 swept Europe, expressing what they termed 'scientific socialism'. In the last third of the 19th century in Europe social democratic parties arose in Europe drawing mainly from Marxism. The Australian Labor Party was the world's first elected socialist party when the party won the 1899 Queensland state election.
So socialism pretty much didn't exist until almost 1800 and didn't exist in practice until about 1900.
How many of those things in your list do you figure were invented before 1789, much less 1899?
Military - Earliest known documentation of military warfare was about 2700 BC between Sumer & Elam. Trojan War was about 1260 BC
Highways & roads - About 4000 BC in Mesopotamia & Babylon
Police & Fire Depts - History of ancient Chinese prefects date back to the Chu dynasty (about 1030BC) & organized modern police forces as far back as 1667 in Paris. There are records of firefighting machinery used in Ancient Egypt, including a water pump invented by Ctesibius (about 250 BC) & records of organized firefighting exist under Augustus of Rome (about 40 BC).
Public librarys - Date back to Briston, England in 1464. University libraries began popping up at the beginning of the 17th century (Bodelien in 1602, Norwich in 1608 for example).
Bridges - Date back pretty much as far as man, but the Arkadiko Bridge is the oldest one still standing today, which dates back to the Greek Bronze Age (about 1600BC)
US postal service - Dates back pretty much to the history of writing. The first organized courier service dates back to Egypt in about 2400BC. Public postal services as a government funded utility date back to the cursus publicus again created by Augustus of Rome in about 40 BC. The US postal service specifically still predates the earliest forms of socialism. Ben Franklin was the first Postmaster General in 1775.
CIA, FBI - The FBI dates back to 1908. Doubt the invention of socialism had much to do with it, other than to irradicate it as a threat to democracy.
IRS - Taxation dates back to 3000BC in Ancient Egypt. The US IRS formed in 1862 to raise funds for the Civil War. 14 years after the Communist Manifesto was written. Again, highly doubtful they are related.
EPA - Passed by Nixon on executive order. Hardly a socialist.
War - See "military".
Garbage collection - Organized municipal waste management dates back to 1751 London.
Public schools - Required Compulsory public education dates back to the Aztec Triple Alliance in 1428. In America, Boston Latin School, founded in 1635 still exists today.
Sewer System - Dates back to the Indus Valley Civilisation of South Asia around 2600 BC.
Court System - Law and civil code goes back to Ancient Egypt in 3000 BC. The Code of Hammurabi in 1760 BC was codified law inscribed in stone. Courts specifically date back to Corpus Juris Civilis in Ancient Rome around 530 BC.
The Polio Vaccine - Developed between 1936 & 1952 in the United States. Socialism had nothing to do with it.I just wasted way too much time researching the wikis to get the exact dates and examples to point out just how retarded that overused tired argument is.