The only threat is sanders if he can mobilize the youth vote I doubt he can be stopped.
We heard the same thing in 2016 about Hillary. First assume it is a coin toss. Then look at issues. That is where Bernie falls down. I give a slight. A very slight advantage to Trump. Yes he is an ass. But he is running against an avowed Socialist. Venezuela, Cuba, and China are in the news a lot and figure even more in the coming months. The Chinese response to the WuFlu is not going to help.
And your lack of education is showing.
Venezuela is a dictatorship
Cuba is a Dictatorship
China is a Oligarchy.
A Socialist is an Economics Expert.
I suggest you go and get educated. Read a book instead of just eating the covers off it and saying you digested it.
Odd.
Definition of socialism
1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2a: a system of society or group living in which there is no private property
b: a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done
Definition of SOCIALISM
So Das Kapital said that Socialism was a stepping stone to pure Communism. Of course what did Marx know?
Socialist mode of production - Wikipedia
Odd isn’t it? That all the written examples you say I should consult are 180 out from what you claim they will say. Das Kapital is a flawed theory. I read it. All labor is not equal. Take the ingredients for Apple Pie. I might make something edible out of it. I am not a great cook. All the labor I pour into it will not increase my skills or talent. Yet one who is skilled and talented will produce something extraordinary with those same ingredients.
Using your own cite against you
2a: a system of society or group living in which there is no private property
Does that mean that Denmark isn't a socialist country then? What you described isn't a Socialist Government (which doesn't exist). What you describe was what Marx wrote what the ideal Communist Society would be and that didn't last 10 seconds when Lenin tried to implement it. Instead, he ended up with a Military Dictatorship.
Here is a good clip. Watch it if you dare. But your head might explode.
And now from the Dictionary
Definition of social democracy
1 : a political movement advocating a gradual and peaceful transition from capitalism to socialism by democratic means
2 : a democratic welfare state that incorporates both capitalist and socialist practices
The US is just another form of a Social Democracy. There are different levels of it. The more a country grows and wishes to stay healthy, the more it centers between the capitalist and socialist economic mediums.
There can be NO Socialist Government since Socialism is NOT a Government model. It's an economic model. Just like there can be NO Capitalistic Governments because that is also an Economic Model. What you end up is something between a Dictator and a Fascist Government where both the Capitalists of the Fascists and the total government control of the Dictator find a happy medium that works.
When Lenin took control with the Bolsheviks, there was a huge backlash in Europe and even the US about the Lenin/Marx Communism. What came out of it was the Social Democracies we see in Europe today. Many countries in Europe changed quickly to Social Democracies to prevent the Lenin/Marx ideas from slamming in. A few went a step further and went Fascism. And no, when Hitler took power, he didn't take power over a Socialist or a Communist country, he took power over an extremely damaged Social Democratic Nation and corrupted it with Fascism he learned from Mussolini and then he used Mussolini's playbook and changed it to a Dictatorship. Stalin changed the Lenin/Marxims to a Dicatorship as well about the same time. In the end, there was no difference. An out of control Dictator is still a Dictator no matter which side of the circle he comes from. This is why Stalin and Hitler hated each other with a passion. They were blinded and couldn't see that they were just two peas in a pod even if they came from two different directions.
Getting back to Lenin, Lenin understood that the only way Communism could exist (in his mind) was to seize the entire world and then force it on the world. Everyone had to be under communism at the same time. Of course, with the birth of the various Federal Republics and Social Democracies, that wasn't possible until all of them were defeated. The Military Regime was nothing but a means to an end. Of course it failed but it took something like 75 years for it to fail. But at no time was it EVER a Socialist or a Communist Regime. It was a Dictatorship or an Oligarchy which is still is today. Until Putin came along, it was a Oligarchy and had much in common with the US after the fall of the USSR. Putin is bringing back the bad old days where HE is the Dictator. Again, no Socialist or Communist Government since neither can really exist.
That's enough for today, Class dismissed.