[jalisco555]

Yep, 100 million dead aren't nearly enough. What the world needs today clearly is more socialism.

[Khankrumthebulgar]

The fruits of Socialism can be seen in Detroit Michigan and New Orleans LA. Both are abject failures. Social Laboratories of why Socialism is contrary to human nature. Look at China and Russia who both have embraced Free Markets to see that Socialism has failed in both Countries.

Socialism is being promoted by the Left in order to control the populace and make them dependent on Policy Makers. Note to the Women of the US. Alot of US Men are sick of the Gynocracy the Nanny Government here. We are either expating outright or considering it. Look at New Zealand if you doubt Men will vote with their feet when things get bad enough.

[Falcon4.0]

"SOCIALISM" that's right, "Socialism"

Like a Monkey with a sledgehammer, socialism gets even with those who have one dollar more than you do.

[ClearCase_guy]

Once again, the Socialists make it clear that Property Rights mean nothing to them.

I say: without Property Rights, there can be no freedom. The thing that Socialists support is the opposit eof freedom.

[Just mythoughts]

"We have not reached the end of history as long as the spirit of solidarity animates antisweatshop movements, as long as a root sense of fairness motivates our efforts for a living wage, as long as the belief in equality nourishes our demand for a national healthcare system, as long as we embrace the democratic social provisioning embodied in Social Security."

I will watch Hillry's leftist charge to the end of their history to see which of these particular themes she embodies.

Her "we can do it better" campaign is a reminder of another former New York senator's presidential campaign. Hillry is even embracing herself a 'god' on her journey.

[oh8eleven]

Living in a capitalist world, we can't get far thinking and talking about alternatives and new directions without acknowledging that many of our key values and starting points are drawn from a common historical source: the socialist tradition.
Key values? WTF? Socialist tradition of what - taking from those who work to those who won't? BS!

[LegendHasIt]

Nah...

What it needs is MORE COWBELL.

[IrishCatholic]

It is funny in a sad pathetic sense. Those that would direct the society, always see themselves as the directors. Capitalism isn't a system, it is what happens when you don't force one. It is the natural default mode.

Freedom is the God given right to the individual.

But, to be honest, I wish the dems would come out and say what they really are: socialists. Then they could finally be tagged as the traitors they are. I have grown less patient with liberals in general in these past years. I now tell them there are three reasons to be a democrat or a liberal. The first reason is that they are uninformed. The second is that they are mentally ill. The third reason is that they hate their country and are traitors. That covers all the bases.
On Meet the Press May 22, 2005 Howard Dean was promoting Bernie Sanders as a potential senate candidate. Russert asked Dean if he was bothered by the fact that Sanders was a socialist. Dean said it was a matter of semantics. After all, Bernie voted with the Dems 95% of the time.
It's one of the reasons I don't change my tag line. The fifth column needs outing.

[Doc Savage]

And here I thought brain disease had been wiped out! You never can trust a commie!

[griffmorpho]

Wasn't Pol Pot's Khymer Rouge government, with over a million dead Cambodians, yet another great socialist "alternative"? I guess the wrong people were in charge.

The Soviet Union under Stalin? Why --- that was really "state captialism"! (Whatever the hell that means...)

Whenever you point out the failure and mass murder of socialism, you hear the same tired rebuttals:

Isn't wasn't "true" Communism. (Well, what is then?)

Under democratic socialism, workers would control all the farms and factories. (Where has this ever happened without government control, bureaucracy & the inevitable police state?)

Why, look at how great life in Sweden is! (It's so great they've got the highest suicide rate worldwide. Sweden's always been a mixture of capitalism & socialism, anyway, and the welfare state is crumbling. Sweden's main advantage is that they were smart enough not to import an immigrant workforce from Muslim North Africa --- unlike those brilliant socialists in France, who are now munching on wine & cheese while Paris burns.)

It's pointless to argue with left-wing intellectuals. If 100 million dead under various socialist regimes wasn't enough to convince them they're wrong --- nothing ever will. Unfortunately these are the same types who are comfortably ensconced in some many of our college faculties --- safely cushioned from the real world effect of their evil ideology.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

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[The Raven]

>>Yep, 100 million dead aren't nearly enough. What the world needs today clearly is more socialism.

Exactly!

They have a way of justifying the outrageous - for the betterment of themselves.

When their programs don't work (they never do) - somehow they end up in population reduction as an answer.

Somebody, somewhere, right now - is calculating the effect of re-releasing the 1918 flu virus on global warming.

[LibLieSlayer]

socialist= rat vermin that need "Pest Control"!

LLS

[listenhillary]

Social Security and Medicare pose the most seri­ous danger to long-term spending restraint. Together, these programs face an unfunded liabil­ity of $33.2 trillion, which is eight times larger than the current national debt.

More socialism?

[demkicker]

If only the left would take Ron Aronson's advice and crawl out from under their rocks and call themselves socialists, we could bury these sorry socialists forever.

[spikeytx86]

I pray for the day the democrats add social to there name. Once they finally come out of the proverbial closet it will be that much harder for them to commit economic and social subversion. It is another time for choosing for America, Go down the path of false security toward serfdom, or toward a future our founders envisioned where our destiny is what we make of it not what our politicians choose for us.

[Atomic Vomit]

What? Rats admit they're socialists? Rats stop lying?

Never happen.

AV

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[goldstategop]

Community, equality and fairness. While integral to a socialist vision, Ronald Aronson's honesty runs into a big problem: it can only be imposed by force. There is no way in a free society to make people live together voluntarily, to make every one the same and to eliminate every agent that acts against a fair society. Autonomy, inequality and diversity lie at the heart of a free society. The opposites postulated in socialism sooner or later lead to tyranny. There has never been and never will be a truly just society on earth that can be truly free. You can have a dependent society or you can have a free one. You cannot have both and this has been borne out by the historical record. The Left cannot admit that socialism ultimately destroys the will of a society to continue existing. We can see this in Russia, Germany and France where all the primary impulses of society have been subsumed by purely secondary ones and as result they're all dying countries. Do we want to end up like them? I don't think so.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Michael.SF.]

Thanks for the post. It could provide a new slogan for the Dems:

DEMOCRATS:
Always "in the process of shaping our feminist, antiwar, progay, antiracist, multicultural, ecological and community-oriented identities," ever since we stopped fighting civil rights!

[ken5050]

I know it's "The Nation" but the piece is dated April 1st...Ya think????

[BB2]

Well, where would the U.N. get it's global taxes to redistribute if we get rid of capitalism?

Who wiill decide what work each individual will do in order to promote the common good?

Will we be labeled at birth, "worker", "farmer", "doctor", "politician", "teacher", "scientist". How else will we know where we fit in to the "global" economy?