Posted on 07/26/2008 3:29:46 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
From the dictionary:
Marxism
1. The political and economic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in which the concept of class struggle plays a central role in understanding society's allegedly inevitable development from bourgeois oppression under capitalism to a socialist and ultimately classless society.
Communism
1. A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members. Communism
2. a) A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people. b) The Marxist-Leninist version of Communist doctrine that advocates the overthrow of capitalism by the revolution of the proletariat.
Socialism
1. Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy.
2. The stage in Marxist-Leninist theory intermediate between capitalism and communism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been successfully achieved.
Capitalism
1. An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market.
Freedom
1. The condition of being free of restraints.
2. Liberty of the person from slavery, detention, or oppression.
3. a) Political independence. b) Exemption from the arbitrary exercise of authority in the performance of a specific action; civil liberty: freedom of assembly.
Liberty
1. a) The condition of being free from restriction or control. b) The right and power to act, believe, or express oneself in a manner of one's own choosing. c) The condition of being physically and legally free from confinement, servitude, or forced labor. See synonyms at freedom.
2. Freedom from unjust or undue governmental control.
3. A right or immunity to engage in certain actions without control or interference: the liberties protected by the Bill of Rights.
Republic
1. a) A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president. b) A nation that has such a political order.
2. a) A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them. b) A nation that has such a political order.
Constitution of the United States of America
Fundamental law of the U.S. federal system of government and a landmark document of the Western world. It is the oldest written national constitution in operation, completed in 1787 at the Constitutional Convention of 55 delegates who met in Philadelphia, ostensibly to amend the Articles of Confederation. The Constitution was ratified in June 1788, but because ratification in many states was contingent on the promised addition of a Bill of Rights, Congress proposed 12 amendments in September 1789; 10 were ratified by the states, and their adoption was certified on Dec. 15, 1791. The framers were especially concerned with limiting the power of the government and securing the liberty of citizens. The Constitution's separation of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government, the checks and balances of each branch against the other, and the explicit guarantees of individual liberty were all designed to strike a balance between authority and liberty. Article I vests all legislative powers in the Congress — the House of Representatives and the Senate. Article II vests executive power in the president. Article III places judicial power in the hands of the courts. Article IV deals, in part, with relations among the states and with the privileges of the citizens, Article V with amendment procedure, and Article VI with public debts and the supremacy of the Constitution. Article VII stipulates that the Constitution would become operational after being ratified by nine states. The 10th Amendment limits the national government's powers to those expressly listed in the Constitution; the states, unless otherwise restricted, possess all the remaining (or "residual") powers of government. Amendments to the Constitution may be proposed by a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress or by a convention called by Congress on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the states. (All subsequent amendments have been initiated by Congress.) Amendments proposed by Congress must be ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures or by conventions in as many states. Twenty-seven amendments have been added to the Constitution since 1789. In addition to the Bill of Rights, these include the 13th (1865), abolishing slavery; the 14th (1868), requiring due process and equal protection under the law; the 15th (1870), guaranteeing the right to vote regardless of race; the 17th (1913), providing for the direct election of U.S. senators; the 19th (1920), instituting women's suffrage, and the 22nd (1951), limiting the presidency to two terms.
Obamaism (see also abomination)
A belief that the Constitution of the United States of America is obsolete, that capitalism exploits and oppresses the ignorant masses, that government knows better than the people on how to conduct their private affairs, that centralized government planning and control of the economy is superior to free markets, that free republics are evil and racist, that self-defense, national defense, national security are the tools of hateful war mongers, that nations should erase their borders, destroy their means of national defense, dissolve their constitutions and submit to control by world governments, that the ideas of freedom, free nations, free people, liberty, capitalism, etc, are failures that should be replaced by world government control, socialism, Marxism, etc. Can't we all just get along?
Actually, they are all from the pit of hell
variations . . . literally
on satanism.
I have no idea how Obama became the nominee of the Democrat party this year. I have a die hard union member in my family that wouldn’t cast a vote for him if he was the last guy on earth. If this person won’t vote for him, there are a lot more Democrats out there who won’t.
Obama is clueless. His comments often seem to reveal that he is talking about something he has never given thought to before. For instance those interviews last week where he said “ah” over and over again, when asked relatively easy questions.
He is a very shallow thinker. He seems to be a person who hasn’t given politics (domestic or international) all that much thought, other than when trying to get elected.
I can’t remember a guy less qualified to be president, unless it would be George McGovern.
Of course Carter comes to mind. There was another guy that hadn’t given the ramification of his decisions any thought. Perhaps that’s being too charitable though. He may have given them lots of thought.
I plan on giveing more in the next Freepathon so it is over way before the election. Maybe people will have more time to work on defeating A Hillary or A Obama if they are not confronted with the Freepathon ending around the election time.
link to YouTube video
You've been in our prayers.
How about favoritISM for you as a modern day inspiration?
Thank you for starting FR and please take good care of yourself.
While we are on this topic, we should include libertarianism, and welfare-statism.
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I would add Islamfascism and Obamaism to the above.
One of the synonyms for Obamaism is Egotism:
Defined by Wikipedia,
Egotism is the motivation to maintain and enhance favorable views of self. Egotism means placing oneself at the center of one’s world with direct concern for no other.
It is closely related to narcissism, or “loving one’s self,” and the possible tendency to speak or write of oneself boastfully and at great length. Egotism may coexist with delusions of one’s own importance, at the denial of others. This conceit is a character trait describing a person who acts to gain values in an amount excessively greater than that which he/she gives to others. Egotism is often accomplished by exploiting the altruism, irrationality and ignorance of others, as well as utilizing coercive force and/or fraud.
Egotism differs from both altruism, or acting to gain fewer values than are being given, and egoism, a determination to gain and give an equal amount or degree of values. Various forms of “empirical egoism” can be consistent with egotism, as long as the value of one’s own self-benefit is entirely individual.
On some maps, you notice a point labeled: "You Are Here". From this description, this is where I feel we are presently.
Thanks for posting this Jim, the distinctions and degrees matter most.
Liberals, leftists, socialists, progressives, and communists are **ALL** ( every one of them) riding the same train.
What’s that phrase that Granddad used to call them???? Oh yeah, “Fellow-Travelers.”
He ran against one of the most hated 'clans' to ever visit politics. But, as I mentioned before, the 'ethnic ceiling' will NOT be broken before the 'gender ceiling'.
Barack's loss is inevitable, the repurcussions unpredictable. I'm buying me an OJ mask. I suggest others do the same.
yep
NO WAY
JOSE!
THE KING OF KINGS IS RETURNING . . .
It’ll be a mess between now and then . . .
But PRAISE GOD—HE WON AT CALVARY AND THE EMPTY TOMB AND THE CORONATION CELEBRATION IS GONNA BE GRAND!
OBUMMA CAN SUCK ROCKS . . . and his puppet masters big toes.
One of the synonyms for Obamaism is Egotism:
Defined by Wikipedia,
Egotism is the motivation to maintain and enhance favorable views of self. Egotism means placing oneself at the center of one’s world with direct concern for no other.
It is closely related to narcissism, or “loving one’s self,” and the possible tendency to speak or write of oneself boastfully and at great length. Egotism may coexist with delusions of one’s own importance, at the denial of others. This conceit is a character trait describing a person who acts to gain values in an amount excessively greater than that which he/she gives to others. Egotism is often accomplished by exploiting the altruism, irrationality and ignorance of others, as well as utilizing coercive force and/or fraud.
Egotism differs from both altruism, or acting to gain fewer values than are being given, and egoism, a determination to gain and give an equal amount or degree of values. Various forms of “empirical egoism” can be consistent with egotism, as long as the value of one’s own self-benefit is entirely individual.
WELL PUT.
BTTT
I’m not sure I agree any longer about the distinctions mattering much at all.
They are all evil to the core, from the foundation up.
They are all hell-bent on bringing about an evil world government that’s on the near horizon.
Ev’rybody’s talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism
BTTT
Useful thread....I’ll ping our newest ChiCom trolls to this thread. They keep claiming that there’s more media freedom, liberty, and capitalism in China than in the West and N. America.
Bravo, Jim! All who love America, our system of government and freedom must work very hard so that a socialist is not elected President of our great country!
Hope you are feeling much better!
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