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Socialism in the U.S.

Kangaroo Feathers

Yea, it is written in the Book of Cyril...
Ah!
I was being thick.
I thought you did mean it.

Yeah, I notice that the internet is riddled with contentious ideas about Hitler. I like the one about Hitler being a True Christian best.

I remember how the US was paranoid about the word 'commie' back in the 50s. If you wanted to do some real damage to someone, just hint that they were a commie.
It's still very much the mindset among many today, hence our Usual Suspects who constantly declare anyone and anything they disagree with "socialist" without any apparent understanding of the meaning of the term.
 

oldbadger

Skanky Old Mongrel!
Oh I don't disagree. It's clear however the extremes are definitely leaning incrementally further left into socialists territory and arguably beyond that.

I'm against the permanency of the Patriot Act and was incredibly shocking to discover that over 60 Fortune 500 companies paid less tax (meaning zero, ziltch nada) then a single person working on minimum wage and made it known here.

If the right enters extreme territory, I'll certainly holler about it as much as I do with the left.
Fair enough.
In the UK many moderate socialists are frightened of Jeremy Corbyn's socialism, but he does seem to be surging forward at this time.

These days I vote for a person rather than which party they belong to.
 

oldbadger

Skanky Old Mongrel!
It's still very much the mindset among many today, hence our Usual Suspects who constantly declare anyone and anything they disagree with "socialist" without any apparent understanding of the meaning of the term.
There must be a whole bunch of political '''kill' terms for doing damage to any opponents. Trouble is, the public can be so auto-prejudiced so easily.

It sure takes guys to choose politics for a job, I reckon.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Oh I love it!

You think that Nazis were communists?

Wow...........
I wondered if you'd catch the humor.
National Socialist Party wasn't pure socialism, but government
did exert enormous control over the means of production.
 

Enoch07

It's all a sick freaking joke.
Premium Member
jesus was a communist.

Matthew 19:21
Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sellthat thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

Mark 10:21
Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.

Luke 18:22
Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

Talk about putting the cart before the horse.

Jesus wasn't a Marxist. Marxism didn't exist yet.:confused:
 

oldbadger

Skanky Old Mongrel!
I wondered if you'd catch the humor.
National Socialist Party wasn't pure socialism, but government
did exert enormous control over the means of production.
I don't do humour on Saturdays.
Socialism isn't really about words and titles, it's about actions.
 

Enoch07

It's all a sick freaking joke.
Premium Member
How was Marx a tyrant? The man wrote some books, and died.

He created an ideology that led to the starvation, death and oppression of millions of people. A tyrant/monster/whatevs suits him just the same.
 

Woberts

The Perfumed Seneschal
Actually they do. I even cited them for all to enjoy. Just because you had a commie college professor lie to you about Che doesn't mean that erases reality.
Your sources are lying. Citing something does not make it true.
 

Enoch07

It's all a sick freaking joke.
Premium Member
i didn't say that. i said jesus was a communist. he advocated communalism. you cannot serve love and money, or love and power.

Starving millions to death is not love.

Jesus fed people. So therefore he is not a communist.

Communist "re-educate" (kick their teeth in) people that disagree with them.

The worst Jesus ever did was chase a tax man with a whip, can you blame Him? So He was not a communist.

Communism is about manipulating the desperate into handing over all their rights, labor, dignity, and money for the (false) promise of security and prosperity.

Jesus gave love and only ask for love in return. He was not a communist.
 
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