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To: Yaelle
Not to be confused for a totalitarian nostalgist, I would support a kind of socialism that would be democratic and aimed primarily at decommodifying labor, reducing the vast inequality brought about by capitalism, and breaking capital’s stranglehold over politics and culture.

That is the line that I was going to comment on too. We have two choices with "commodifying" labor: people can voluntarily pay individuals to work, while those individuals voluntarily work for the pay offered, or a socialist government (or equivalent slave owner) can use force to compel individuals to work as ordered for the amount they are told to accept.

I like freedom, so I absolutely reject socialism. I will not survive that transition in our country - live free or die. This is not something where a vote to "try socialism" would be legitimate. This is something where the all too likely eventual vote for socialism will require extreme government/union/thug force to compel all normal, productive people to serve the ever-growing parasite class that always appears to leech off those who are foolish and weak enough to serve as slaves.

67 posted on 03/07/2018 7:46:18 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Pollster1

Agree. No one who loves freedom would want to live under socialism.

And as another brilliant freeper pointed out, there is no “try” socialism on to see how it “feeeeeeels.” A lot of our loved ones have to DIE to get us back out. No touchy feely minimum wage and happy happy joy joy for the drug addicted homeless is worth the hundreds of thousands of American patriots who would die trying to get our freedom back.

If there were a death penalty for stupid, this bitch would be eating her last supper about now.


119 posted on 03/07/2018 10:28:44 AM PST by Yaelle
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