[ScreamingFist]

The system was dead already"

No, it's alive and well. It has merely transported itself from the USSR to universities across Europe and America, a entire new culture to breed on and corrode.....

[spanalot]

"No, it's alive and well. It has merely transported itself from the USSR to universities across Europe and America, a entire new culture to breed on and corrode....."

You got that right - and look at the crap they are going to ordain at the Oscars tonite.

[RobbyS]

To this day the Marxists professors deny that Stalinism was (a) as evil as Hiterism and (2) that socialism is anything more than state capitalism.

[rzeznikj at stout]

Yes and no. Communism and Marxism by themselves are on life support and are dying out as widespread doctrines. Socialism as a whole is flourishing in Europe and among the American Left.

How can this be?

Simple. Socialism isn't communism. Socialism isn't Marxism. Socialism isn't even American Liberalism. But all three are different faces off the same body--Socialism.

Socialism is a broad word that implies any economic or political system (or ideology) in which the state is the primary determinant of the economic, political, and social decisions for a people--as opposed to a democracy or a true republic, where the people are the ultimate determinants of policy.

Thus Communism, American Liberalism, Marxism, Nazism, Fascism, Islamism, totalitarianism, dictatorships, et al. are all considered to be Socialist in nature.