Socialism isn't the only leftist political-economic theory. Marxism is one in its own. It does share some concepts but it doesn't mean that everything on the left is socialism.
Where did I say communism is good? Drinking more of that kool-aide Sam? Sweden and Denmark are Social Democracies that lean heavily on the Socialist side. As much as you think we are becoming socialist, we are still way far to the right as compared to Sweden And Denmark. Sweden and Denmark would be akin to Dennis Kucinich's relative position to Boehner's position politically. Eric -----Original Message----- From: Sam [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 1:36 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: how do they come up with this crud? On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > No...Marxism is an extreme left ideology just as fascism is an extreme right > ideology. So you agree Marxism is socialism but a version you don't like so you throw it away. > However Communism and Socialism are centered on the people, so > a dictatorial ruler is contradictory to the tenets of both. In order to have communism or socialism you need to overthrow the capitalists with dictatorship of the proletariat. > Just because we > called it Communism and Socialism doesn't mean that it really was that. It > was simply a dictatorship that took over a movement that was rooted in > socialism and communism, but did not follow all it's tenets. So if something doesn't follow all the tenets it's void yet you still call it right-wing. > It would be > better described as Marxism as it was advocating violent overthrow of > governments arising from class warfare and the subjugation of the working > class. Yes it did share some ideals with the 2, but then so do we as a > Social Democratic Republic, but that doesn't make us any more a socialist or > communist state that the USSR was. Communism was never successful beyond a > small group (aka the example of hippie communes or Israeli Kibbutzes). That > is why I say we have never seen a communist state...ever. Now you're saying communism is good except every time it was tried it failed. > In Europe, > Socialist Democratic states, like Sweden and Denmark have thrived on the > otherhand. Have the followed all the tenets of socialism or just so ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:326458 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
