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 ...
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.
IOW Communism is Socialism by the drink!
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.
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