Socialism as a Cure for The

Future
By: Amber McCool
Why change the
government held
today?
Background
● What is Socialism?
● What is Capitalism?
● How does this relate to the future?

Figure 1
 ● Unemployment
○ Why?
○ What does
Economics capitalism do?
● How can socialism
help?
 ● What is philosophy?
● Karl Marx
Philosophy ● Philosophy of socialism
 ● Values of socialists
● How does this affect
Culture & the people?
Values ● How can this help the
people?
Counterclaims and Rebuttal
● Counterclaims
○ No motivation
○ Has not worked in the past
● Rebuttal
○ Citizens work together to achieve the same goal
○ The future is the problem at hand
Conclusion/Solution
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