The conversation continues.
Liberal: Socialism has nothing to do with taxation, let’s get that out of the way. The US has two major parties, one reactionary and one conservative/progressive.
Progressivism is just the idea that for the society to improve new ideas need to be tried.
The difference between socialism and communism is that the state still exists in socialism while in communism it’s been removed along with money.
A world war isn’t something that includes the whole world but fighting in the whole war, the one that came closest was the Vietnam war as some fighting was done in Laos. Furthermore the Vietnam war was between Vietnam and foreign invaders a effectively, south Vietnam was only a puppet government on the hands of France first and then The US. WW2 wasn’t started by a communist or socialist, but by a Nazi, the republicans are closer to Nazism than the democrats are to even socialism.
Communism and socialism was simply a reaction to the failures of laize-faire capitalism, along with fascism and Nazism that is. Same way laizes-faire was a reaction to mercantilism.
I socialist is a patient communist.
I like the scene in Fury (Brad Pitt tank movie). Brad is the war-wise veteran who tells the FNG to shoot any SS Nazis they see. The reason is the SS are brainwashed beyond redemption.
>>WW2 wasn’t started by a communist or socialist, but by a Nazi,
The response to that is “You mean the National Socialists? And make no mistake about it, the NSDAP platform has many elements in common with that of the Democrats.”
WWII was started by the Poles, they were asking for it. /sarc