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Public Funding Of Elections

What is state or public funding of elections? This means that government gives funds to political parties or candidates for contesting elections. Its main purpose is to make it unnecessary for contestants to take money from powerful moneyed interests so that they can remain clean. Why public funding is good?  Political parties and candidates need money for their electoral campaigns, to keep contacts with their constituencies, to prepare policy decisions and to pay professional staff. Therefore, public funding is a natural and necessary cost of democracy.  Public funding can limit the influence of interested money and thereby help curb corruption.  Public funding can increase transparency in party and candidate finance and thereby help curb corruption.  In societies where many citizens are under or just above the poverty line, they cannot be expected to donate large amounts of money to political parties or candidates. If parties and candidates recei...

The Philosophy of Equality: SOCIALISM

Socialism is born to correct the Economical and Ethical problems of capitalism. While Capitalism promotes the Value of Liberty , Socialism promotes Value of Equality . But for Socialism, here arise two basic questions: 1. Equality for what? 2. How will we get Equality? Equality For What? Here Equality means Equality in Results, Unlike Equality of Laws in case of Liberalism. In socialism, this is not only Equality in opportunities but also Equality in the Outcomes which Ensures for the fulfillment of the basic needs of the people in spite of their abilities to earn. Equal rights, Equal Dignity, No hierarchical order, Absence of those identities which promote class division, equal access to resources, etc.  How will we get Equality? For answering this question, There have been many different means to get socialism around the world. Which can be summarized in three heads- Achieving Socialism by Change Of Heart. Achieving Socialism by Class Struggle.   ...