[RobbyS]

Modern socialists share a great deal with the Communists--that is, the Leninists. They represent the Menshevik branch of the Party, the part that sought accomodation with western democracy without giving up its hostility to capitalism--or to religion. One thing they retain is an idolotry to the state. They think that everything can be reduced to political terms and every political one to economics/classwarfare. Right now they are wrecking Germany, holding their electoral majority with the votes of the Ossies who find it so hard to fit into a capitalist society. They are sucking as much milk as they can out of the capitalist cow, passing money on to the hapless victims of the old Communist system. They goof thing for us that this prevents a German expansion into the east, leaving the area open to American influence.

[Catholicguy]

One thing they retain is an idolotry to the state. They think that everything can be reduced to political terms and every political one to economics/classwarfare.

<> That was an excellent post. Your point I selected out is a good description of the influential ones in my generation (Talking 'bout my generation). We are like a brick passing through the kidney of America<>