a Socialist is simply a Communist without a gun...
Posted on 07/01/2012 5:09:30 PM PDT by Libloather
What’s a Socialist?
By STEVEN ERLANGER
Published: June 30, 2012
FRANCE has elected its first Socialist president since 1988 and then given the Socialist Party and its closest allies a whopping majority in Parliament. But how Socialist is François Hollande? And what does it mean to be a Socialist these days, anyway?
Not very much. Certainly nothing radical. In a sense, socialism was an ideology of the industrialized 19th century, a democratic Marxism, and it succeeded, even in (shh!) the United States. Socialism meant the emancipation of the working class and its transformation into the middle class; it championed social justice and a progressive tax system, and in that sense has largely done its job. As the industrialized working class gets smaller and smaller, socialism seems to have less and less to say.
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Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a leader of the student revolt of May 1968, known then as “Dany the Red,” is now “Dany the Green,” co-leader of the ecologist group in the European Parliament. “The fight between private property and state property is over,” he says, and traditional class distinctions are blurred. “There was never a purely socialist working class,” he suggested. “Socialism and social democracy today are about a society with more solidarity, more protection of people, more egalitarianism.” In a way, he said, socialism is defined today mostly by its contrast to neo-liberalism — by more reliance on the state and higher taxes on the wealthy.
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Follow the confiscated money.
Socialism is defined by power and envy. At least we agree on the definition. The odd thing is that the writer seems to think that this is a good. thing.
Anybody who can't find anything to disagree with in the following list is a ... [INSERT ANSWER HERE].
The Ten Planks of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto (and How Lefties Implement Them)
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Gads, this is proof positive that some are destined for intellectual pursuits, whilst others are doomed to the average world of journalism.
Hang it up, NYT.
Gads, this is proof positive that some are destined for intellectual pursuits, whilst others are doomed to the average world of journalism.
Hang it up, NYT.
The reporter for the NYT’s just needs to look to his righ and then to his left. THAT IS A SOCIALIST! morons
a Socialist is simply a Communist without a gun...
Sorry. I'm not playing this game anymore. A "socialist" is whatever a leftist wants it to be at any point in a given political argument.
Socialism is just another flavor of totalitarian statism, along with fascism, communism, Naziism, Progressivism and all the other variations of the same preposterous idea that has plagued humanity for the past 100 years.
That idea is that society ought to be ordered by a group of elite "planners" who operate to implement their schemes through densely concentrated government power.
Thus, a socialist is someone who is opposed to the very concept of human liberty.
A socialist is someone who thinks of himself as "scientific" thinker, yet refuses to recognize the easily observable fact that during the last 100 years, every variation of statism has failed miserably, bringing economic collapse, hardship and death to every society that has tried it.
Even the impending collapse of Europe, and the economic peril facing the United States, is not sufficient to inspire a glimmer of self-doubt, a smidgen of question, in the mind of a socialist regarding the viability of statism.
A socialist is someone who imagines that there exists a big bottomless pot of money that belongs to nobody in particular, and that the highest manifestation of statesmanship is just to hand it out.
A socialist is someone who opposes human slavery only to the extent that the slaves are privately owned.
Obama!
A collectivist is called by many names - Democrat, Socialist, Nazi, Fascist, Communist, Progressive, Marxist, Leftist, Bolshevist, Kibbutznik, Stalinist, Maoist, et al which place the group above the individual.
a socialist is a half-baked communist.
Socialism , redistribute the wealth of those who have earned it? Nationalism of a minority, racial and ethnic
social substrata forming a political class which controls the entire country?
Nationalist Socialism is no big deal ? Jonah Goldberg in his book “Liberal Fascism” thinks its a big deal.
It IS a big deal, its fascism “thought to be no big deal” in a country whose constitution ensures individual freedoms.Where is the disconnect, eh?
There are no socialsists today, just as there are no liberals. They ALL have become Utopian fascists.Thats what we have in the White House.
Read here, its good:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
Pres. Hollande (France) with 3 that’s THREE houses on the French Rivera.
Socialism is for the little people NOT the socialists!
A liar.
Capitalism vs Socialism...if it was sex...capitalism at its worse is prostitution .......socialism at its best is rape
a Socialist is the slave of a government with absolute control , a bird that prefers being in a cage waiting for feed instead of soaring and hunting like an Eagle
A socialist is a communist who hasn’t started killing YET.
Someone who believes it is alright to STEAL from others and to make SLAVES of our fellow man.
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