WRONG!!!!!
Socialism is an economy controlled by the "people" and Communism is an economy controlled by the "government.".
I'm sorry, but you're just flatly wrong on that one. =\ It's just painfully obvious you're not informed on the subject. Here is some basic reading to get you started off, Nick:
Socialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Communism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Well, obviously, the liberals here don't understand the difference between what communism SAYS it stands for, and what communism actually DOES stand for.
Now then, my errant little children, let's review.What communist state has ever actually attempted to eliminate its government? Well, actually to date, not a single one; no communist nation has ever gotten past the "dictatorship of the proletariat", which is to say, a fundamentally statist government run by (who else?)
the ruling communist elite! If that sounds eerily similar to the desires of the so-called "progressive elite democrats" of today, it is because that is precisely the kind of state the wish to inflict (by force) on the rest of us; after all, who better than a bunch of elitist, leftist academic snobs, to tell the rest of us whats good for us (they of course, , being the elite, live by a slightly different set of rules (like the Soviet Politburo did). Regardless of what they say, communism is in fact statism (among other things)! Ever see a communist state that didn't call itself "The Peoples Democratic Republic of__________"? No? I didn't think so; you see, that's mere window dressing; communist states are neither "democratic", nor are they "republics" in any sense of word; they are in fact authoritarian by nature; communism, being at odds with human nature, cannot survive, save with the support of an all-powerful, authoritarian state. Any fool who still harbors the illusion that Stalin's Soviet Union was any more democratic, law-abiding, or less murderous than Nazi Germany, needs a history lesson-BADLY! Uncle Joe made Hitler look like an amateur, when it came to mass murder; so did Mao's China. COMMUNISM KILLS, massively, ruthlessly and often. It has to; it is an ideology based solely and completely on lies, half-truths and deception, as we have just shown. The Left LIES, constantly and repeatedly; some of the Leftists right here know that, being themselves such practitioners of that art, that they no longer can even recognize the truth, when presented with it. Advocates of the notion of "equality" they are nought but an arrogant collection of authoritarians, and elitists; the only people they deem worthy of "equality" are those that think and act as the Left thinks they ought; anyone else is to receive neither toierance nor equality (see the scribblings of Saul Alinsky and Herbert Marcuse for a sampling of communist thought on what to ask for, as contrasted with what to practice).. Advocates of "the rights of the people", they are the most shameless proponents of the rights of the state, first, last, and foremost. They have to be, for absent seizing control of the machinery of the state, communists are nothing by a tiny elitist minority of intellectual snobs. Fortunately, America has only a limited supply of Ivy-League intellectual snobs who pretend they are better and smarter than the rest of us (they are not, and it's high time we put these smug, arrogant jerks where they belong). So far as I'm concerned, that would be out of office, out of power, out of academia, out of the media spotlight, and into re-education camps where they could receive what their kind have dished out all over the world.
Yes, Hitler outlawed the communist party; even a stopped clock is right twice a day, and Old Adolf was 100% right on that call. It was a damned fine idea, and the world would be a better place, if there were not a single communist allowed to live. In Vietnam, I killed them by the bushel, and I wish I could kill more, wherever their disgusting species is found. The only GOOD communist, is a DEAD communist! I'd pick up a weapon again tomorrow, given the opportunity to kill more communists; I only wish we had been turned loose on the communist traitors here at home; I would have relished the prospect!
If Jesus ever actually said "turn the other cheek" he was not only wrong, he was a fool, as only a fool would actually do that. I am not a fool, and if you hit me, I will hit you twice, before you get a chance to try again. I'll hit below the belt, too; I don't fight fair; I learned that from the Left. When it comes to opposing communism, in whatever guise, it is "by whatever means necessary". Like you Lefites, I've learned that politics is war by other means, and I fight it that way; the same way you do. Don't like that? TOUGH! You started it, and I intend to do what I can to finish it. Every step Progressives/communists,/socialists take, I am prepared to go one further. Screw morality, your hippie progenitors said. I have every intention of doing just that; all I give a damn about is results (just like you).