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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A socialist is merely a communist who has not started killing – yet.
I went to public school. I learned all about the atrocities committed under Stalin and Mao. I suppose it’s possible New York is even bluer than California, but I think it’s more likely the kids are learning about the evils of communism but just aren’t applying those lessons to the real world. Generation Smartphone just does not have the same critical thinking skills as us Millennials or older folk.
Socialism is Communism under a different, deliberately misleading brand name.
All of us have 'free speech' but that doesn't mean 'speech without consequences'.
If an employee at a bank started yelling the "F" word every time a person with brown shoes walked into the bank they have that 'right'. But the bank also has the right to fire the person. Same with teachers. They have 'the right' to say whatever they want and we have the right to have them fired.
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