Posted on 01/06/2016 2:38:57 PM PST by Sean_Anthony
Gosh. Why is this question so hard to answer?
You may recall that, a few months ago, Chris Matthews made waves by asking DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz a very simple question: “What’s the difference between a Democrat and a Socialist? After all, Bernie Sanders is a proud socialist and Dems like to claim that label doesn’t apply to them. Wasserman Schultz, unsurprisingly, couldn’t answer the question.
Apparently she found it difficult to outline a difference where none exists.
Simple answer..there is NO difference, Democrat, Socialist, Communist, same thing
Must not have got the useful tool memo about not asking anything more difficult than “Why are Democrats SO awesome?”
at one time, Democrats stayed as far away from Communism as they could
even some of the major union officials did this
they were liberal but NOT commies
nowadays, yes...many of the Demo party leaders (those that have taken over the D party leadership) ... are commies
so there’s no real difference anymore
When exactly was this? Anyone who wore the “Progressive” label even back then were friendly to Marxism, FWICS.
World’s Smartest Woman. I’m so impressed.
Hillary reveals how really stupid she is.
in the 1950,1960,1970’s even... the D party leadership and major unions were not ‘progressives’ .. that word had dropped out of general use after Wilson and maybe FDR
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1. they generally supported more welfare programs and funding than the R’s
2. they generally avoided any connections with the CPUSA (remember that USA’s chief protagonist then was the USSR)
3. they usually (not all) were willing to defend America and our natural allies......(Truman, JFK, Scoop Jackson, Lyndon Johnson, etc.)
when the USSR sort of fell...... America’s chief protagonist “was no more”.... and soon after that we also witnessed a takeover of the D party leadership by (for all practical purposes: communists)....
which is where we are today
approximately, anyway. I could poke holes in the above with some counter-examples but I respectfully submit it is roughly correct
In short, there was a time when you could vote D and not worry too much that they’d take away your constitutional rights in an effort to impose an outright dictatorship on America.....as today.................and...and....also..you could vote D without worrying too much about them selling out America’s defenses
That doesn’t make them non-communists. They merely shoved it all underground in order to hold on to power.
Yes that’s possible. But I really didn’t think people like Truman jfk Jackson were Communists. Anyway, those days are over
Not many people did call themselves "progressive" from the 1950s to the 1980s because of Henry Wallace's Soviet-friendly Progressive Party (1948).
Also, groups like the Maoist Progressive Labor Party didn't make the word a good name.
Only recently did "progressive" come back into vogue since "liberal" became a dirty word by the 1980s.
There's an ambiguity: Old leftists call themselves progressives in the old way. So do radical New Leftists (who are pretty old by now). But so do a lot of young people for whom the word simply means "not conservative."
Liberals of the Adlai Stevenson, JFK vintage weren't Communists, and it's doubtful that the Clintons are either.
Given what Communism entails -- state ownership of the means of production -- how would that even work in America and who would actually support it?
Well, Reagan observed of JFK, “Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx.” The delay of JFK with respect to Cuba said a lot.
And rather than support Douglas MacArthur who counterattacked against Red Chinese aggression in North Korea, Truman fired the general, allowing communism to become entrenched in that part of the world.
As George Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it”, which is a direct contrast of the Communist Manifesto’s declaration, “In bourgeois society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in communist society, the present dominates the past”. No days are truly over in light of this.
That’s way too kind to say the Clintons are not communists. Remember how enthusiastic Bill was originally about legalizing homosexuals in the military? or “Hillarycare”?
The party that Lenin belonged to was originally called the Social Democratic Labor Party and only became the CPSU after the Bolshevik-Menshevik split. And when socialism in practice threatened the rapid collapse of his reconstituted Russian Empire, Lenin came out with the New Economic Policy to put things back on a relatively solid footing.
Socialists admit they are socialists.
Democrats spew a bunch of hummina-hummina BS.
I guess Castro never got the memo.
Castro seems to have followed Stalin’s lead. Lenin legalized homosexuality and Stalin re-banned it.
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