62% of 18-29 Year Olds Have a Favorable View of Socialism

[PoliticalChic]

The closest approximation to democratic socialism that has really worked is social democracy. I prefer social democracy to the American system of casino capitalism, where the odds favor the house.

I have read the writings of Karl Marx fairly extensively. After college I took a fascinating seminar on Das Kapital that was given by a brilliant member of the American Communist Party. His day job was working as a physicist. When he was not doing his day job and leading the seminar he was translating a book from Russian to Swedish. Yes he was that intelligent.

I believe that Marx had two valid insights and that he was mistaken about everything else. He never advocated the totalitarian methods used in his name during the twentieth century, but he did inspire them, so he is not completely innocent.

I have read some of Vladimir Lenin. I see no value in his writing and thinking.

Communism does not prove that socialism cannot work. It proves that a dictatorship is an inappropriate government for a command economy.

You have no clue as to what you are speaking about: you read Marx?????

AI Overview


Ronald Reagan famously said, "How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin"
. This quote suggests that while reading Marx was a characteristic of a communist, understanding his works was what defined an anti-communist, creating a distinction between being a communist in name and being a supporter of the ideology.


Did you know that Marx worshipped Satan?



You really need a better education.

The Left, Communists, Nazis, Democrats, follow what Karl Marx preached.


More that interesting is that Marx worshipped the Devil.



Marx wrote poetry, and in one, "The Fiddler," we find


"Why do I fiddle? Or the wild waves roar?

That they might pound the rocky shore,

That eye be blinded, that bosom swell,

That Soul's cry carry down to Hell."



"Fiddler, with scorn you rend your heart.

A radiant God lent you your art,

To dazzle with waves of melody,

To soar to the star-dance in the sky."



"How so! I plunge, plunge without fail

My blood-black sabre into your soul.

That art God neither wants nor wists,

It leaps to the brain from Hell's black mists.



"Till heart's bewitched, till senses reel:

With Satan I have struck my deal.

He chalks the signs, beats time for me,

I play the death march fast and free.

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There is no way to separate communism, socialism, Progressivism, the Democrat Party, and, therefore, no way to ignore their ties to Satan.

 

[j-mac]

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And have been doing for the whole seven decades I've been alive, and it has NEVER WORKED.

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Amen brother.

 

[j-mac]

Capitalism is a failure. It failed in 2008. It just hasn't stopped flopping around on the deck yet.

Not with people like you that want to continue to revive this failure, Globally, so that you can cause even more death, and destruction of rights.

Um, No.

 

[Hector12]

You have no clue as to what you are speaking about: you read Marx?????

AI Overview


Ronald Reagan famously said, "How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin"
. This quote suggests that while reading Marx was a characteristic of a communist, understanding his works was what defined an anti-communist, creating a distinction between being a communist in name and being a supporter of the ideology.


Did you know that Marx worshipped Satan?



You really need a better education.

The Left, Communists, Nazis, Democrats, follow what Karl Marx preached.


More that interesting is that Marx worshipped the Devil.



Marx wrote poetry, and in one, "The Fiddler," we find


"Why do I fiddle? Or the wild waves roar?

That they might pound the rocky shore,

That eye be blinded, that bosom swell,

That Soul's cry carry down to Hell."



"Fiddler, with scorn you rend your heart.

A radiant God lent you your art,

To dazzle with waves of melody,

To soar to the star-dance in the sky."



"How so! I plunge, plunge without fail

My blood-black sabre into your soul.

That art God neither wants nor wists,

It leaps to the brain from Hell's black mists.



"Till heart's bewitched, till senses reel:

With Satan I have struck my deal.

He chalks the signs, beats time for me,

I play the death march fast and free.

http://[URL='https://www.marxists.o...ive/marx/works/1837-pre/verse/verse4.htm[/URL

]

There is no way to separate communism, socialism, Progressivism, the Democrat Party, and, therefore, no way to ignore their ties to Satan.

A mark of intelligence is the ability to make distinctions. Democratic Socialists are not Communists any more than MAGA Boy Republicans are Nazis.

Where did Marx say that he worshiped Satan?

 

[Rawley]

Capitalism is a failure. It failed in 2008. It just hasn't stopped flopping around on the deck yet.

So are you a socialist or a communist?

 

[Hector12]

Ronald Reagan famously said, "How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin"
. This quote suggests that while reading Marx was a characteristic of a communist, understanding his works was what defined an anti-communist, creating a distinction between being a communist in name and being a supporter of the ideology.

The only think Reagan was right about was tariffs.

 

[Rawley]

Why is it even being called 'Democratic Socialist', it's just plain Socialist, there is nothing democratic about it.

Plain and simple, so they can run on the Democrat line in elections.

 

[Hector12]

So are you a socialist or a communist?

JoeB131 is probably a social democrat like I am. There are hardly any Communists in the United States.

 

[Rawley]

JoeB131 is probably a social democrat like I am. There are hardly any Communists in the United States.

What distinction do you make between Democrat Socialist and Socialist?

 

[BrokeLoser]

The overall tax system is mildly progressive.

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WTF!
The tax system is extremely progressive.
What’s 100% of ZERO?
Think about the elementary arithmetic

 

[PoliticalChic]

A mark of intelligence is the ability to make distinctions. Democratic Socialists are not Communists any more than MAGA Boy Republicans are Nazis.

Where did Marx say that he worshiped Satan?

I have never met anyone who had a weakness for communism who wasn't pretty much a fool.
Take a bow.


You proved it with the "Nazis" reference.
Both Communists and Nazis originated in the same place:
You might like to view this documentary, recommended by The Economist, that will prove everything I've said....

Then you can come back and apologize.



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"The Soviet Story," an award winning documentary clarifying the close and personal attachments of Hitler's Nazis and Stalin's Communists.

"Soviet Story" is the most powerful antidote yet to the sanitisation of the past. The film is gripping, audacious and uncompromising. [...] The main aim of the film is to show the close connections—philosophical, political and organisational—between the Nazi and Soviet systems." Telling the Soviet story


Before Marx, no other European thinker publically advocated racial extermination. He was the first." George Watson.

Historian George Watson,

A year after Lenin's death, 1924, the NYTimes published a small article about a newly established party in Germany, the National Socialist Labor Party, which "...persists in believing that Lenin and Hitler can be compared or contrasted...Dr. Goebell's....assertion that Lenin was the greatest man second only to Hitler....and that the difference between communism and the Hitler faith was very slight...." November 27, 1925.(Article provided in the film)

Shortly thereafter the Nazis found it more useful to stress differences, and the earlier campaign posters showing similarities disappeared, posters with both the hammer and sickle and the swastika. (18:30)

a. "Hitler often stated that he learned much from reading Marx, and the whole of National Socialism is doctrinally based on Marxism." George Watson, Historian, Cambridge.

b. "Socialists in Germany were national socialists, communists were international socialists." Vladimir Bukovsky.

 

[PoliticalChic]

So are you a socialist or a communist?

A correct answer would be "yes."

 

[PoliticalChic]

The only think Reagan was right about was tariffs.

In that case he would be correct more often than you.

 

[PoliticalChic]

JoeB131 is probably a social democrat like I am. There are hardly any Communists in the United States.

One can hear the Democrat Socialists singing the Internationale, on youtube vid.


The Internationale is the communist anthem.

 

[PoliticalChic]

JoeB131 is probably a social democrat like I am. There are hardly any Communists in the United States.

Let's check:

Socialist Zohran Mamdani called for ‘abolition of private property,’ resurfaced video shows

The Republican National Committee ridiculed New York City socialist Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, posting a resurfaced video of him supporting “the abolition of private property.…

Socialist Zohran Mamdani called for ‘abolition of private property,’ resurfaced video shows

The Republican National Committee ridiculed New York City socialist Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, posting a resurfaced video of him supporting “the abolition of private property.…

nypost.com

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Let's check, and see if you are too cowardly to answer a simple question.





For many years we on the Right have claimed that you subscribe to a party based on a foreign ideology. Now it is clear and out in the open.



The Mamdani Democrat party stands for abolishing private property, socialis/communism, anti-Semitism, and racism.

 

[Hector12]

What distinction do you make between Democrat Socialist and Socialist?

Thank you for asking a good question. A democratic socialist respects the judgment of the electorate. He realizes that socialism is unpopular with much of the electorate. He presents his arguments. If they are rejected, he accepts that. A democratic socialist will not use violence to achieve his goals.

A socialist can be any number of things of the left. He can be a Marxist Leninist fanatic.

I call myself a social democrat because I recognize that capitalism has its place. I like efforts by the government to reduce economic inequality, without eliminating it.

 

[Hector12]

The Mamdani Democrat party stands for abolishing private property, socialis/communism, anti-Semitism, and racism.

That is a distortion of Mamdani's views, and an example of the straw man fallacy.

If you cannot explain someone else's opinion in ways he or she would agree that what you said is an accurate expression of his or hers opinion you to not understand the other person's opinion.

Mandani has said that his main goal is to make New York City affordable for ordinary Americans to live in. I am afraid he will fail, but agree with his goal, and I hope he succeeds.

I am a Christian who admires Jews, respects Judaism, and loves Israel.

 

[Hector12]

One can hear the Democrat Socialists singing the Internationale, on youtube vid.


The Internationale is the communist anthem.

The song was originally written in 1871 by a socialist.

The Internationale - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Hector12]

Let's check:

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Let's check, and see if you are too cowardly to answer a simple question.

For many years we on the Right have claimed that you subscribe to a party based on a foreign ideology. Now it is clear and out in the open.

Blimey Governor, you don't me now do you?

I am surprised that anyone noticed me but JoeB131. He thinks I am a racist. By his definition I am one.

 

[Hector12]

In that case he would be correct more often than you.

Reagan tripled the national debt by cutting taxes for the rich while raising military spending. No Republican who admires Reagan can claim to value fiscal responsibility.