Posted on 03/02/2019 8:15:36 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump used his State of the Union speech to position America squarely against the rising tide of socialism.
The Washington Post has chosen to take the other side.
Perspective: Five myths about socialism
MYTH NO. 1
Socialism is a single coherent ideology.
…socialism has multiple meanings and interpretations, which have to be disentangled before a discussion about its merits can begin. One distinction centers on whether socialism is a system that must supplant capitalism or one that can harness the market’s immense productive capacity for progressive ends. Karl Marx, who predicted that historical forces would inevitably lead to capitalism’s demise and to government control of industry, was the most famous proponent of the first type of socialism. An impatient Vladimir Lenin argued instead that rather than waiting for history to run its course, a revolutionary vanguard should destroy capitalism.
Other socialists, however, did not accept the violent, undemocratic nature of that course, although they agreed that capitalism was unjust and unstable. The left’s role, in the view of these “democratic socialists” — the Czech-Austrian theorist Karl Kautsky, for instance — was to remind citizens of capitalism’s defects and rally popular support for an alternative economic system that would end private ownership and assert popular control over the means of production.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
And the difference is? It's the "progressive ends" as defined by murderous socialists that I am most disturbed about. Given the state of the globalist crony capitalist system our so-called free-market economy is something of a myth, hence the "health care" crisis.
They are admitting that socialism can only exist as a parasite of capitalism.
Without capitalism socialists have nothing to “redistribute.”
Thank goodness we are a system of government 20 trillion in debt. There is only debt to redistribute at this point. It’s like taking over a bank with 100 million account holders, only to find out there are really no deposits.....just loan payments hopefully sufficient to stay alive and hope nobody notices.
Really? This is the nonsense that the richest man in the U.S. is publishing in his #fakenews tabloid?
A GOOD subtitle for a biography of Karl Marx would be “a study in failure”. Marx claimed that the point of philosophy was not just to understand the world but to improve it. Yet his philosophy changed it largely for the worst: the 40% of humanity who lived under Marxist regimes for much of the 20th century endured famines, gulags and party dictatorships.
https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2018/05/03/rulers-of-the-world-read-karl-marx
Myth 1: That socialism is anything other than slower-motion communism.
Myth 2: That socialism can ever be morally justified.
Myth 3: That fabricating different names for the same thing changes its evil.
‘Bout the size of it, yup.
Socialism is a study of the second-order effects of capitalism.
Trump is the biggest socialist in DC: driving up the workers’ share of profits by the wall and by discouraging outsourcing.
That’s the core of socialism: the workers’ share of the profit.
REAL socialists would be supporting Trump.
Anyone who doesn’t is a traitor to socialism.
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