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Posted on 07/13/2026 5:06:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Tragically, we face today burgeoning support for socialism, largely because the U.S. socialist-inspired public schools have intentionally avoided teaching the system’s evil ways and disastrous results everywhere on earth it’s ever been attempted. As red flags go, they don’t come much bigger. Or redder.
I have a long-time family friend, who should know better. He’s a lifelong business journalist who even for a while wrote for the conservative Wall Street Journal. Nevertheless, my buddy insists “socialism” is quite different from communism, and that in fact many socialist countries, such as in Scandinavia, are quite happy with the “benefits” of socialism.
He may be right that many people are happy in Sweden, whose major political party is the Swedish Social Democratic Party. But the happy faces in Sweden and its Scandinavian neighbors can be explained by the fact that many people find pleasure in receiving benefits paid for by other people. As U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher so coyly noted in 1976 before she became prime minister, “The problem with socialism is that eventually they run out of other people’s money.”
The difference between those happy-faced socialists and actual communists is just a matter of degree. As those benefitting from seizing other people’s wealth and income taste the fruits of their government-enabled theft, their appetite only grows for more. When was the last time you heard a socialist demanding less of other people’s money?
As Karl Marx, the unemployed German who came up with the idea of communism, spelled out in detail in his Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto, and other writings, socialism is not a goal. It is an essential step toward the goal.
That means even those enjoying short-term benefits by living off the sweat of others, in fact are nudging their nations closer and closer to the communist goal
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Public School indoctrination centers are a big part of the problem. Some will argue that it is a free speech issue, but I disagree.
Let’s be really clear - “Socialism” and “Communism” are really a move to Totalitarianism and dictatorship. Its about a small group wanting to control everyone else. That small group grabs wealth that they did not produce to make themselves rich and pass it out to their political allies. Socialism and Communism pretend to transfer wealth to the poor and needy. What the Democrats do is transfer wealth to their political allies and those who will vote for them.
Lenin has said as much.
However, communism is not the final step. Oligarchism is the final step of socialism, but you have to keep decreasing the number of people who own society until the number is as small as it can be.
Buckle up because we allowed the government schools to indoctrinate children to want communism. More and more of those indoctrinated souls are voting while more and more of the likes of me are dying off.
As Karl Marx, the unemployed German who came up with the idea of communism, spelled out in detail in his Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto, and other writings, socialism is not a goal. It is an essential step toward the goal. …Oh, this again.
Government schools are usually not a good thing.
Who was it that said “Socialism is communism in installments”?
CC
“The difference between those happy-faced socialists and actual communists is just a matter of degree.”
To the working folks, all forms of socialism operate like state governed, slave-labor, capitalist systems.
One significant difference (the only one?) between fascism and communism goes like this. In fascism, the political powers call in the captains of industry and inform them they are now required to enforce the political agenda of the fascist overlords, but they’ll be allowed to keep operating and keep their profits (sound familiar - facebook, youtube, google, et al?) In communism, the political powers call in the captains of industry and line them up against the wall and shoot them, then the political powers appoint their cronies to run the newly orphaned industrial entities. Hence, the old WWII adage that under Mussolini, at least the trains ran on time. In the Soviet Union, under Stalin, only murderous chaos.
All roads lead to their coming mandatory Digital ID w/vax ID, Social Credit Scores, Central Bank Digital Currency CBDCs and AI algorithms ‘fairly’ redistributing resources while monitoring 7x24 all in real time,
All roads lead to anti-Christ.
Indeed.
Clarification: Note that my comment in no way endorses fascism - it is the second most sick and murderous form of socialism next to pure communism.
Tell that to all the idiots willing to throw their freedoms away for all the free stuff they are being promised by Bernie’s and AOC’s crowd..
I’m with you on this one.
“The goal of socialism is communism”
- Vladimir Lenin
Fighting this is a hill I am prepared to die on.
When I was teaching in Khovel Ukraine, during the Clinton years, my students asked me why Americans were fooled by Hilary Clinton. I explained that they thought she was a socialist not a Communist.
They laughed out loud!
“ A socialist,” Sasha said, “is a Communist who is not in power yet.”
The difference between Socialism and Communism is the same as the difference between seduction and rape, you still get screwed.
Socialism is communism in the caterpiilar stage.
“The goal of socialism is communism”
THAT is the Lenin quote I remember. Spot on!!!
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