[PROCON]

Good grief, a (too) long, disjointed screed with an attempt to sound 'intellectual'.

WTF does this even mean?

Not to be confused for a totalitarian nostalgist, I would support a kind of socialism that would be democratic and aimed primarily at decommodifying labor, reducing the vast inequality brought about by capitalism, and breaking capital’s stranglehold over politics and culture.

[Trillian]

It means they’re attempting to sound smart while being a complete moron. All the socialism they’ve tried here (and everywhere else) has failed so now they wanna go full commie.

[Steve_Seattle]

The first two sentences are enough to show you that the author is an idiot.

[Guardian Sebastian]

Every large city in the US has a democrat “socialist” mayor and council. How is that working out for the larger cities?

[Neoliberalnot]

My point about Bezos and the WaPo. Retry a method that resulted in the death of millions. Again, a scratchy rope is something earned.

[Puppage]

The author of this screed.

[Neoliberalnot]

Just think of the millions of innocent lives lost to these butchers.

[ealgeone]

Suggest they move to Cuba,Zimbabwe, South Africa, Venezuela for an actual case study.

[mulligan]

Stupid and ignorant comment. It has be tried and is being tried and is and has always been a failure. Some people can never get over being stupid.

[Steve_Seattle]

"decommodifying labor"

What the hell does she mean by that? It sounds like labor would no longer be something undertaken between employer and worker, but doled out by the state on its own terms.

[ontap]

It means you can’t fix stupid!!!!

[mjp]

I would support a kind of socialism that would be democratic and aimed primarily at decommodifying labor, reducing the vast inequality brought about by capitalism, and breaking capital’s stranglehold over politics and culture.

secular humanists have been calling for democratic socialism since the first humanist manifesto in 1933

[fruser1]

There’s already too much socialism here.

70% fed budget on social spending.

Social security, medicare, progressive tax rates, to name the most obvious.

[right way right]

Socialism is Communism by election.

[The Pack Knight]

By all means, lets try a discredited 19th century idea responsible for the deaths of over 100 million people.

“Capitalism,” as they call it, has only lifted billions of people out of poverty and serfdom, increased life expectancies by decades, and allowed most of the world’s people to achieve a standard of living once reserved for aristocrats. Clearly, it’s time for a change.

[right way right]

It’s not time to try Socialism, it’s time to kick Socialists in the teeth.

[GOPJ]

This story belonw shows the true face of 'American Socialism'. Bill Ayers was a Hyde Park friend of Obama's and was rumored to have penned 'Dreams of My Father' for Obama. Bill Ayers probably knew Bernie Sanders... The quote out is Bill Ayers talking about what would happen if Socialists took over and the number of people who would have to be murdered:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/2455-obamas-friend-ayers-kill-25-million-americans

"In No Place to Hide, Grathwohl explains that the Weathermen actually believed that they would be successful in overthrowing the U.S. government and that, with the help of the Cubans, Chinese, Russians, and North Vietnamese, they would occupy America. Americans would have to be "re-educated" in camps, similar to what the communists did in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and other countries they had taken over.

Here is one of the chilling revelations Larry Grathwohl made in the film:

I asked, "Well what is going to happen to those people we can't reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?" And the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated.

And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers.

And when I say "eliminate," I mean "kill."

Twenty-five million people.

I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people and they were dead serious.

[Doogle]

Nitwit...

[dfwgator]

"Here's another issue that may interest you: "Soviet Communism -- Let's Give It a Chance"! I'll bet there are some of you who have opinions on this one. That's Soviet Communism here -- here and now! Here, in this country, in your own community. I guess there are plenty of good, red-blooded Americans out there who'll have a little something to say about that. And, if there are, and you want to talk back to me, Frank Noland, I'm prepared to talk back to you! Maybe you forgot to make a note of those numbers. The numbers again are eight zero-zero, five-five-five, three-three-one-zero -- one-one, one-two, one-three, one-four, one-five, one-six, one-seven, one-eight and one-nine. And I'm ready to talk back on these same topics: Federally Supported Municipal Bonds, Forced Busing, and "Soviet Communism Here and Now"! I, Frank Noland, am ready to talk back to you in support of spending federal funds to bus known Soviet Communists into your community now -- to teach your children and to live in your house, whether you like it or not! Now, if anyone has another position, and it's your right as an American to disagree, give me a call on one of these toll-free lines."

"How 'bout this? "Killing Puppies -- It Doesn't Bother Me" ... That's me, Frank Noland, and I LIKE dead puppies! Frankly, I'm totally in favor of using federally supported municipal bonds to pay for forced busing of Soviet Communists to come into your homes to kill your puppies! Give me a call, won't you? The lines are open. Tell ME what you think about it.......Dead, mangled puppies ... I like 'em ... "

[Brilliant]

It’s time to get off this merry go round.

[Mariner]

She’s an idiot product of American Intelligentsia.

Unfortunately, there’s millions of them, and they were all produced with taxpayer subsidy.