1. This morn I read one of those posts by a mislead buffoon who still mouths the "Communists are the Left, Nazis are the Right."
"Democratic Socialists are not Communists any more than MAGA Boy Republicans are Nazis."
post #184
2. Democrat Socialists are communists.
You know the old joke, a moderate Islamist is simply one with no ammunition.
That's pretty close to the difference between socialists and communists.
In an article on socialism in the Encyclopedia Britannica, Prof. G. D. H. Cole, a leading theoretician and historian of the British Labor Party, declares: The distinction between socialism as distinguished by various Labor and Socialist parties of Europe and the New World, and communism, as represented by the Russians and minority parties in other countries is one of tactics-and-strategy rather than one of objective. Communism is indeed only socialism pursued by revolutionary means and making its revolutionary method a canon of faith...."
AI Overview
The statement
"The aim of socialism is communism" is widely attributed to Vladimir Lenin and accurately reflects his view of socialism as a necessary transitional stage on the path to a fully communist society.
In Marxist-Leninist thought, as adopted by Lenin after the Russian Revolution:
3. How and when did the Right become identified with Nazis?
American progressives, for the most part, did not disavow fascism until the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust became manifest during World War II. After the war, those progressives who had praised Mussolini and Hitler in the 1920s and 1930s had no choice but to dissociate themselves from fascism.
“Accordingly,” writes Jonah Goldberg, “leftist intellectuals redefined fascism as 'right-wing' and projected their own sins onto conservatives, even as they continued to borrow heavily from fascist and pre-fascist thought.” This progressive campaign to recast fascism as the "right-wing" antithesis of communism was aided by Joseph Stalin, ....
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1223
4. Both Bolsheviks and Nazis originated in the works of Karl Marx.
Both have the same aims and methods.
Both feel the same way about human life.
Nazi...national socialism....based on nationalism and/or race... Communism....international socialism.
Liberals claim the center by placing socialism on the left and national socialism on the right, even though Lenin/Stalin and Hitler/other Nazis had much in common as they centralized power and preached hatred. A more accurate spectrum would place totalitarians of many stripes on the left and defenders of religious, political, and economic freedom on the right. http://www.worldmag.com/articles/16873
5.For the Right, the aims are limited government, free markets, and individual freedom.
Neither communists nor Nazis can make these claims.
"Democratic Socialists are not Communists any more than MAGA Boy Republicans are Nazis."
2. Democrat Socialists are communists.
You know the old joke, a moderate Islamist is simply one with no ammunition.
That's pretty close to the difference between socialists and communists.
In an article on socialism in the Encyclopedia Britannica, Prof. G. D. H. Cole, a leading theoretician and historian of the British Labor Party, declares: The distinction between socialism as distinguished by various Labor and Socialist parties of Europe and the New World, and communism, as represented by the Russians and minority parties in other countries is one of tactics-and-strategy rather than one of objective. Communism is indeed only socialism pursued by revolutionary means and making its revolutionary method a canon of faith...."
AI Overview
The statement
"The aim of socialism is communism" is widely attributed to Vladimir Lenin and accurately reflects his view of socialism as a necessary transitional stage on the path to a fully communist society.
In Marxist-Leninist thought, as adopted by Lenin after the Russian Revolution:
- Socialism is the first, intermediate phase after the overthrow of capitalism, characterized by state ownership of the means of production, a planned economy, wages, and the existence of a state apparatus (the "dictatorship of the proletariat").
- Communism is the ultimate, higher stage of society, which is characterized as being a classless, stateless system where the guiding principle of distribution would be "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need".
3. How and when did the Right become identified with Nazis?
American progressives, for the most part, did not disavow fascism until the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust became manifest during World War II. After the war, those progressives who had praised Mussolini and Hitler in the 1920s and 1930s had no choice but to dissociate themselves from fascism.
“Accordingly,” writes Jonah Goldberg, “leftist intellectuals redefined fascism as 'right-wing' and projected their own sins onto conservatives, even as they continued to borrow heavily from fascist and pre-fascist thought.” This progressive campaign to recast fascism as the "right-wing" antithesis of communism was aided by Joseph Stalin, ....
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1223
4. Both Bolsheviks and Nazis originated in the works of Karl Marx.
Both have the same aims and methods.
Both feel the same way about human life.
Nazi...national socialism....based on nationalism and/or race... Communism....international socialism.
Liberals claim the center by placing socialism on the left and national socialism on the right, even though Lenin/Stalin and Hitler/other Nazis had much in common as they centralized power and preached hatred. A more accurate spectrum would place totalitarians of many stripes on the left and defenders of religious, political, and economic freedom on the right. http://www.worldmag.com/articles/16873
5.For the Right, the aims are limited government, free markets, and individual freedom.
Neither communists nor Nazis can make these claims.
