When a leftist says "community" they mean "commune".

(vanity)

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Listening to a talk radio program out of Minneapolis / St Paul this morning, the hosts are talking about West's assertion that some 80 members of congress are communists.

The show has morphed from that topic, to asking callers to define "communism".

And it seemed to this poster:

[Cringing Negativism Network]

There's a reason, a methodical, brainwashing reason, that every leftist special interest group has adopted the identifier "community", and it's the same reason the word has always seemed somehow disturbing:

That word is used in practice, as a more harmless seeming version of ... THE WORD IT MEANS TO THE LEFT:

"Commune". Yes that word. Communism.

[Pollster1]

Definition of COMMUNISM
1
a : an inherently evil theory advocating elimination of private property [when you spread the wealth around, everyone benefits]
b : an inherently evil system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed, with “need” determined by political connections [GM bankruptcy assets were available to the UAW but not to the senior bondholders]
2
an inherently evil doctrine based on revolutionary Marxian socialism and Marxism-Leninism that was the official ideology of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [democrats expect this to turn out better in the United States than everywhere else they tried it]
b : an inherently evil totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production [see Solyndra and related production efforts]
c : the inherently evil final stage of society in Marxist theory in which the state has withered away and economic goods are distributed “equitably” to people with connections to those in charge of distributing goods.

See also: progressivism, socialism, and liberalism.

[henkster]

I will never forget Archie Bunker’s quote: “People who live in Communes are Comm-u-nists.” Of course, Norman Lear sought to poke fun of such “ignorant” attitudes, but even though I was in 6th grade I knew Archie had hit the nail on the head.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

It is remarkable tribute to the power and truth of conservative ideas - that even a Hollywood liberal deliberately working to caricature conservative beliefs, inadvertently motivated you that way, in your youth!

We need to keep working together, to wrest control of the increasingly blatant propaganda-media, out of the grip of that statist oligopoly which now brainwashes American youth with the efficiently of Orwell’s Ministry of Truth.

For too long, we have surrendered education and media to ... communists.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

There are many communal societies that are not Marxist, the most important being families and churches.

The important distinction is voluntary versus coerced membership.

[henkster]

Oddly enough, it was a constant exposure to different political ideas growing up that made me a staunch conservative. That and a profound love of history.

My parents were very conservative; both had copies of “None Dare Call It Treason” around the home. But my maternal grandfather, immigrant from Macedonia, was a member of the Socialist Worker’s Party. I remember him repeatedly agitating me to be a socialist (at age six, no less!).

While in high school, I read “The Essential Works of Socialism,” “Expansion & Co-Existence” (a history of Soviet Foreign Policy) and several books tracing the ideological rise of socialism/communism and it’s evolution through the Soviet state, Comintern, and it’s leftist front groups in the west.

I was a Political Science major at Indiana University from 1977-1981. Most, if not all, of my professors ranged from very liberal to anarcho-communist. All along my political journey, I questioned, reasoned and thought independently about the competing political systems. I accept nothing as “dogma” and subject everything political to critical analysis. I even try to be objective.

I am, and always have been, a political conservative. Because I know the alternative is evil.

[CORedneck]

I know Carroll O’Conner was very leftists but I liked Archie’s character and agreed with a lot that he had to say. IMHO, Norman Lear was also trying to mock the working class folk as well. I know a lot of libs look down on the working class folks and think they are so superior but the libs are wrong. I have more respect for the person who cleans toilets for a living versus some company executive especially if they are liberal.

> I will never forget Archie Bunker’s quote: “People who live in Communes are Comm-u-nists.” Of course, Norman Lear sought to poke fun of such “ignorant” attitudes, but even though I was in 6th grade I knew Archie had hit the nail on the head.