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WP: A high school teacher helps clarify ‘socialism’ for Donald Trump (and you!)
Washington Post ^ | October 24 at 8:30 AM | Philip Bump

Posted on 10/25/2015 5:11:57 AM PDT by a fool in paradise

The day after the first Democratic presidential debate, Donald Trump called Bernie Sanders a maniac.

"This socialist-slash-communist," Trump said to raucous cheers. "I call him a socialist-slash-communist, because that's what he is."

Well, no. The terms "socialist" and "communist" are often confused, thanks in large part to the Cold War. Layer on top of that the nuance of the term "democratic socialist," which is how Sanders describes himself, and it's easy to see why people might generally be confused...

To offer America a bit of a primer, I reached out to Dr. Lawrence Quill, chairman and professor of political science at San Jose State University, over e-mail. He explained the difference between communism, socialism, capitalism and democratic socialism -- in very professorial terms...

Socialism was in part a response to capitalism, largely through the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...

Communism "was the endpoint of Marx's ideas," Quill writes, though Marx didn't delineate what it would look like, exactly...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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To: a fool in paradise

Neither lasts without force and persecution upon the populace. And the victimized groups are the same whether it’s fascism, nazism, socialism or communism: Homosexuals, Jews, intellectuals, academics, artists; in short, nearly the entire liberal base.


41 posted on 10/25/2015 11:49:35 AM PDT by DPMD
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Socialism was in part a response to capitalism, largely through the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels... Communism "was the endpoint of Marx's ideas," Quill writes, though Marx didn't delineate what it would look like, exactly...

IOW Communism is Socialism by the drink!

42 posted on 10/26/2015 10:32:32 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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Distinction without a difference -- but it's nice to know what kind of idiotic moot-court quibble is important to the Partisan Media Shills at the Washington Compost.

43 posted on 12/06/2015 7:26:57 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Don Corleone

The Truth About Karl Marx

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA2lCBJu2Gg


44 posted on 12/06/2015 9:35:41 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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