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Socialism is more effective at poverty reduction and ensuring the meeting of basic needs than capitalism

Commodities are produced for exchange, under capitalism, and decisions as to the production and distribution of commodities are made in accordance with maximum profit as opposed to maximum social benefit.
8 supporter.
1 fallacy report.
Fallacy Of False Cause

Socialism is more effective at poverty reduction and ensuring the meeting of basic needs than capitalism

Food is produced in the expectation of a profit, rather than to feed people. This results in the distribution of food being heavily skewed towards countries whose citizens have higher incomes. It is unprofitable to sell food to people with extremely low incomes.
5 supporter.

Religion was created to control society

If I were you, to avoid confusion I would rewrite this premise as "religion developed as a means of controlling society" or "religion's historical role in society has been in justifying the power of the ruling class", something along the lines of that.
4 supporter.

Socialism is preferable to social democracy, and more sustainable than it

Social democracies rely on their tax base to provide public facilities and to regulate corporations. Regulations decrease corporate profits, also decreasing the available tax base with which to regulate them.
3 supporter.

The death penalty is acceptable in some cases

The death penalty is a barbaric waste of time and money, and court systems are not perfect.
3 supporter.
2 fallacy report.
Begging The Question
Argument To Pity

A universal basic income is the best way to eradicate economic inequality.

Class society is the root of economic inequality, and replacing capitalist productive relations with a socialist socioeconomic formation [1] is the most effective way to eradicate economic inequality.
2 supporter.
1 fallacy report.
Begging The Question

Socialism is more effective at poverty reduction and ensuring the meeting of basic needs than capitalism

The dictatorship of the proletariat, or the worker state, is formed after the destruction of the bourgeois state. For the seizing of the means of production, the seizing of the state is also necessary.
2 supporter.

Socialism is more effective at poverty reduction and ensuring the meeting of basic needs than capitalism

The very nature of land ownership makes the monopolisation of agriculture unavoidable. Extremely large corporations are dispossessing rural producers and selling their produce overseas. You cannot compete with someone who owns all the land.
2 supporter.

Socialism is more effective at poverty reduction and ensuring the meeting of basic needs than capitalism

The state has a fundamentally different character in socialism compared to capitalism.
2 supporter.

Socialism is more effective at poverty reduction and ensuring the meeting of basic needs than capitalism

The bourgeoisie, as a Marxist term, refers to the capitalist class.
2 supporter.