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To: CedarDave

Winthrop Quigley

Winthrop Quigley, the business writer for the Albuquerque Journal, took exception to some of the terms that conservative health care reform protesters have been using so far, because, he writes, “I am a big fan of calling things by their proper name.” And that proper name, Quigley writes, isn’t socialism.

24 posted on 08/31/2010 8:18:25 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/socialism

so·cial·ism
–noun
1. a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
2. procedure or practice in accordance with this theory.
3. (in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.

socialism
— n
1. Compare capitalism an economic theory or system in which the means of production, distribution, and exchange are owned by the community collectively, usually through the state. It is characterized by production for use rather than profit, by equality of individual wealth, by the absence of competitive economic activity, and, usually, by government determination of investment, prices, and production levels
2. any of various social or political theories or movements in which the common welfare is to be achieved through the establishment of a socialist economic system
3. (in Leninist theory) a transitional stage after the proletarian revolution in the development of a society from capitalism to communism: characterized by the distribution of income according to work rather than need


26 posted on 08/31/2010 8:22:12 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I want IMPROVEMENT, not just CHANGE.)
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To: kcvl

Are you sure his last name isn’t Quisling?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quisling

Quisling is a term used to describe traitors and collaborators. The term was most commonly used for fascist political parties and military and paramilitary forces in occupied Allied countries which collaborated with Axis occupiers in World War II, as well as for their members and other collaborators.

The term was coined by the British newspaper The Times in an editorial published on April 15, 1940 entitled “Quislings everywhere” after the Norwegian Vidkun Quisling, who assisted Nazi Germany after it conquered his own country so that he could rule the collaborationist Norwegian government himself.


27 posted on 08/31/2010 8:23:11 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I want IMPROVEMENT, not just CHANGE.)
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