Socialism A Controversial Topic That Americans Either...

S By: Jaden Fisher 05/4/16 ocialism is such a controversial topic that Americans either love it or hate it. People are either educated on the consequences involved with adapting a socialist government or they firmly believe that socialism will be the solution for the United States’ problems. To tell you the truth, socialism will have a negative effect on our society. It may not seem as though capitalism is working for the U.S. based on its huge national debt as well as its wealth disparity, but staying a capitalistic country will help out in the long run. Maintaining capitalism is not the only problem that the U.S is facing. With the upcoming election in November 2016, 47% of U.S citizens are unware of socialism s effects, as they would†¦show more content†¦Although there are many forms of socialism, it was originally created by two German Philosophers named Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. These two men wanted to solve Europe s capitalism dispute by creating a system that terminated social classes, as well as allowing workers to be able to control their means of production and receive equal wealth for the products they produced (â€Å"Socialism†). Some of the most notorious men in history were socialists. Adolf Hitler; dictator of the Nazi Party was a national socialist, and Joseph Stalin was a dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Party. Adolf Hitler was well-known for the brutal abolishment of Jewish citizens during the Holocaust, and Joseph Stalin had started the Cold War but had also done an equivalent amount of killing as Hitler (â€Å"Prentice Hall World History Book†). There are most likely more socialists in history who were quite notorious, but these were the most notable socialists, and therefore goes to show the possible outcome of having a socialist leader. Another outcome of socialism would not only be death and misery, but communism. The founders of Socialism, had intentions that Socialism would transfo rm into communism which is one of the most despised forms of government in the world (â€Å"Socialism is the 1st Step Toward Communism†). There were also many socialist’s thinkers in history who had tried to make claims about the economic inequality in the country they