Unsure about socialism

California Political Review ^ | March 26, 2002 | William E. Saracino

[ElkGroveDan]

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[Gophack]

Spreading socialist doctrine, the Soviet Union killed at least 50 million of it’s citizens. Its Chinese brethren, also pursuing the socialist dream, eliminated about 40 million of their own. It was socialism that erected barriers of concrete, barbed wire, and land mines to keep workers from escaping “paradise.” It intentionally starved millions of people. In China, it now forcibly aborts female fetuses as a means of population control. It viciously persecuted all religions, unwilling to allow any Deity to compete with the all powerful state.

Worth repeating.

[Constitutional Patriot]

This should be bumped continuously...can we bump this to the NY Times? Or maybe Hillary, Schumer, Daschle, Waxman and Chomsky?

[Congressman Billybob]

The most interesting part of this article is where it was pubolished. It's rather amazing that a publication called the California Political Review would publish something that is a) anti-socialist, and b) funny. My experience with political science publications is that they are generally socialist in viewpoint, and that the editors have their sense of humor surgically removed at birth.

Such a publication in California, I assume, would be even more so, in both departments. So, kudos to the writer, and to his editor.

Congressman Billybob

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[martin gibson]

Striding confidently into the glorius red dawn of the worker's paradise....

[GoredInMich]

I am not unsure about it at all.

As President Reagan said

"How can you tell a communist? It's someone who reads MArx and Lenin. How do you tell an anti-communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."

"Nuff said

[ElkGroveDan]

CPR and the California Public Policy foundation are about as conervative as you can get. CPR featured Bill Simon as a rising star as long ago as last summer.

www.cppf.org

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Russia under the Soviets was Hell on Earth for all but the elite few.

That is the goal of these "Socialists", to become the elite few. They are willing to con the masses with pretty words and promises in order to subjugate them simply to benefit themselves.

Take a look at the Democrat Party, its politicians and political consultants. They are the same. They even laugh about their lies, softening them by calling it spin and saying, of course, "every body does it." The Democrats are determined to take over this country so that they will be the elite few. They use lies and pretty words to buy votes from the masses. They must be fought just as determinedly as the Al Queda. They are just as dangerous to freedom and they do it all for themselves while pretending to care about others.

[Pagey]

Thanks for posting this.
Theres' alot I want to say but this'll do:

ALL TIME CHILLING QUOTE OF THE DAY :
The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism,
but under the name of liberalism
they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program
until one day America will be a socialist nation
without ever knowing how it happened----
Who do you think said that?
Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party presidential candidate
and one of the founders of the ACLU.

People,that's a bit telling isn't it?

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[ActionNewsBill]

The first question raised is why on earth anyone feels such a thing as DSA is needed. Are there really folks running loose who think the Democrat Party is insufficiently socialist? About all the California Democrat Party hasn’t done is superimpose a hammer and sickle on its Donkey logo and make “The Internationale” its official anthem. Virtually every bit of their platform could easily have been adopted by any Politburo anywhere in the world.

Great article...Bump!

[Ohioan]

Basically, a good post. But I must take some exception to the following:

You do not have to be a philosopher to see that capitalist societies provide for the well-being of all their citizens, in all aspects, far better than socialist societies do.

That is not quite what happens. Capitalist societies do not provide for the well-being of their citizens. They allow their citizens to provide for their own well-being. And when they do so, coupled as in America until the New Deal, with the insistence that individuals must determine their own level of success or failure, they bring out the best in all people; and with that mixture of opportunity and self-reliance, most people realize their highest potential.

For more on the fallacies of Socialism, in all its evil forms, see The Lies Of Socialism.

William Flax

[spunkets]

Good Post.

Saracino left out mention of the gazillion blinking lights out there in Kali last summer.

[Pagey]

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[Pagey]

"Don't be too G.D. Scared to Refute Socialism" BUMP

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Anti-Socialism BUMP

[Pagey]

"Spreading socialist doctrine, the Soviet Union killed at least 50 million of it’s citizens".

What a great past of which to be proud.That leads one to ponder why perhaps, they consume so much booze.
That's always made me wonder,WHY IS THAT?

[Pagey]

Its Chinese brethren, also pursuing the socialist dream, eliminated about 40 million of their own

Well,it's Thursday Night Now and I can see EVERYONE loves this thread.I wasn't taught the Chinese Murdered their own people when I was in high school.As a matter of fact,I didn't know it until acouple years ago.So much for Calif. public school history classes .Well, I'm still thinking about how much more,each year the Gov't is infringing on our rights,I just wonder what I can do about it,except to Refute it immediately when I see it!