Posted on 05/03/2025 12:25:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
That’s easy. Socialism is communism with training wheels.
The synagouge of Satan says, “ no Commies here.” GOD bless Joe McCarthy. A prophet without honor.
“Unless they are arguing that the government should run U.S. Steel and Tesla, they are simply not communists.”
What about the cities proposing to run grocery stores?
What about California threatening to take over oil refineries?
What about Obama taking over health care?
What about the federal government taking over all student loans?
Like everything in life, there are all sorts of gradations. He seems unaware of that.
He is a real brain-dead, uninformed idiot.
Nonsense. EVERY democRAT believes that.
Saving that one.
Is Air Augusto Helicopter Services back in business?
I think of communism as international socialism. From the communist manifesto: “Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.” The United nations, international law, world court, and “globalism” are all very international. “Think globally, act locally,” as mentioned by one freeper, also has an international character. Global warming combined with national and international legislation of economic activity also resembles international socialism.
Socialism is government control of the economy. The article suggests that you’re only a socialist if you want the government to operate GM. Well, what if the government lays down EV and emissions standards that apply to car companies? I think we have a fair amount of socialism.
What if we have intelligence agencies in several countries that work to their mutual interest against the interest of a host country? If so, we may have an international element that is combined with enough power that “international socialism” may not be far off the mark.
“Isn’t Missoula a college town ?”
Yes, it’s THE college town in Montana and, by far, the most liberal city in MT. Even in deep red Montana you still have kooks like this guy. I’d wager he is a “professor” at the University of Montana which a mile from this protest.
Any socioeconomic system that looks as people as a group rather than as unique self-determining independent individuals will always lead to unhappiness and misery. It doesn’t matter what you call it.
I notice the guy just argues against the characterization of opponents as textbook theoreticalmy pure communists, as if people who haven’t expressed perfect communism as their objective cannot be communist at heart. Communism is just one of the many stages of socialism, the ideal goal of socialism when it is perfected, the Utopia, so to speak, of the left. One can be utopian in outlook without actually believing the perfect communist state is achievable.
The writer zeroes in on just “pure” communist ideologues because it is a less difficult argument than trying to persuade the reader that Trump’s opponents aren’t a bunch of socialists (the foot soldiers in the long march through the institutions on the way to a pure communist society.)
Trump said communists and socialists, after all.
Deservedly.
EVERYHING ELSE must be swept aside. That pis ridden lazy maggots pen killed 170 million people. Most evil man in history, so far
‘The goal of socialism is communism.’
Vladimir Lenin
quite a few people who are pissed at him actually are card-carrying communists
Jamie Ratskin comes to mind.
FINALLY!!!
“Communism: AN INTERNATIONAL, CONSPIRATORIAL DRIVE FOR POWER ON THE PART OF MEN IN HIGH PLACES WILLING TO USE ANY MEANS TO BRING ABOUT THEIR DESIRED AIM—GLOBAL CONQUEST.”
Yes, and they are using GLOBALISM to achieve that goal.
Globalism:
A national geopolitical policy in which the entire world is regarded as the appropriate sphere for a state’s influence.
The development of social, cultural, technological, or economic networks that transcend national boundaries; globalization.
An ideology based on the belief that people, goods and information ought to be able to cross national borders unfettered.
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