communists are socialists in a hurry, with guns
Posted on 06/23/2019 9:41:54 AM PDT by jazusamo
CHICAGO — America’s Communist Party concluded its national convention here seemingly united around two themes: that they are a significant ally of the increasingly powerful left-wing in the Democratic Party and that there remains a viable future for the party.
As to the question of whether the CPUSA emerges in control or is instead absorbed into the broader socialism movement already peppering the platforms of Democrats running for president in 2020, officials expressed confidence the red star of their party will continue burning.
But in the meantime, all goals should be subsumed by one: beating the dreaded President Donald Trump, CPUSA Chairman John Bachtell said in his keynote address.
“The aim is to oust Trump and the Republican Senate majority, defend the Democratic House majority, and break the GOP domination of governorships and state legislatures,” Mr. Bachtell said.
Since the day of Vladimir Lenin, the still-revered father of Bolshevism, Communists have reveled in the vitriol they hurl at political opponents, and Mr. Bachtell did not disappoint.
“He has no morality, no heart and no soul,” he told the roughly 300 delegates who gathered here for the Party’s national convention. “Trump is a gangster masquerading as president.”
In a wide-ranging interview with The Washington Times, Mr. Bachtell reiterated that the modern CPUSA is not seeking a violent revolution.
“I feel very strongly it has to be peaceful, it has to be accomplished politically,” he said.
Such views appear to clash with The Communist Manifesto and its explicit call for the “violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie.”
With a rueful smile, Mr. Bachtell conceded there were some hardliners within the Party who would relish some broken glass and bloodshed, devout Communists who think the current line is somehow a bit squeamish.
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Of course.
“Did you know there’s a BIG DIFFERENCE between Communism and Socialism? “
Communism is when they use guns to force acceptance of socialism.
Can’t we just get on with it?
The longer we wait, the harder it’s going to be, if you catch my drift.
Oh no! Looks like none of the commies will vote for any Republicans next year! Aiiiie! Thanks jazusamo. And it's always hilarious when an atheist demagogue talks about "soul".
Send them all to N. Korea.
communists are socialists in a hurry, with guns
When commies get in rest assured 'hardliners' will get their "broken glass and bloodshed" - they always do...
Absolutely right...Bachtell speaks with forked tongue like all commies, it’s always the other guy that wants to kill you.
A few points:
The writer of this softball crap, James Varney, needs a spanking.
CPUSA has been, for decades, only the most visible & milquetoast of many far more violent rival American Communist organizations.
Many of those rival Communists are NOT shy about upholding & emulating the violence of Pol Pot & Shining Path, and they are actively training guerilla warfare tactics to groups like BLM. & Antifa.
So, just as the Dem Party has its “moderate” and “progressive” factions, so do the Communists have their Trotskyists and their Stalinists.
What’s different today is that Communism in all its stripes is coming out of the closet and announcing its presence within the Democratic Party.
Meanwhile, its allies in the MSM are introducing us to socialism/communism in deceptively nonthreatening ways, in order to normalize public acceptance of it.
This became a quantifiable phenomenon during the Obama administration.
They picked the right city - Chicago.
Democrats, Socialists, Communists, all the same party.
AOC and the others from Michigan and Minnesota should have been in attendance.
Amen...It's taking place right before everyone's eyes and the long time liberal Democrats look like deer caught in the headlights.
CPUSA trained MLK, Rosa Parks, etc. Obama was a card carrying member of their Chicago proxy. Bolshevism needs to be eradicated from the American scene ASAP...
A communist is a socialist in a hurry,therefore,a socialist is a communist with time on their side.
Looks like they’re getting impatient...
The terms socialism & communism are not interchangeable, as most people assume.
Socialism is the ECONOMIC system.
Means of production & distribution of goods is owned & controlled top-down by the government.
Communism is the POLITICAL system.
One party controls everything— the government, its people, legal system, economy — from the top down according to strict Marxist-Leninist ideology.
And we plan on taking every commie on the planet down soon.
“Pray hard!”
And learn guerilla street fighting tactics.
Excellent analysis.
LOL - projection...
Bachtell probably knows the number of Americans who will ‘have to be murdered’ to allow the socialist paradise to work too... he can read the hardliner’s minds.
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