Do you like being called a "worker"? (President, difference, communist)

[Magritte25]

Originally Posted by Savoir Faire

$10 says you don't know the difference between a Socialist and a Communist.

Originally Posted by Harrier

Ah, but I do.

Read Marx - he details the progression quite nicely.

Then why bring up the Soviet Union? It was ruled by the one party Communist state.

[jambo101]

Originally Posted by alphamale

I hate the term.

It sounds so communistic to me.

I go to a factory every day for 40 years and work...What terminology would you like to apply instead of worker?

People working equates to something akin to communism?
I guess 47% of the people have evidently solved the working part that delema.

[GregW]

I would have preferred to be called an "annuity hippie", "surf bum" or "lazy good for nothing womanizer" but I picked the wrong parents. So several decades later I will soon be called a "retired senior citizen" with more time to work at "womanizer".

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by Magritte25

Then why bring up the Soviet Union? It was ruled by the one party Communist state.

Their is a big difference between full blown communism and Marxist-Leninism.

Fortunately, the Soviet Union didn't get the chance to become fully communist.

Thank you President Reagan.

[Don Draper]

Originally Posted by Harrier

Their is a big difference between full blown communism and Marxist-Leninism.

Fortunately, the Soviet Union didn't get the chance to become fully communist.

Thank you President Reagan.

Your post just lost all credibility.

In full Communism the state withers away, what person in their right mind would view that as a negative for the Soviet Union?

[Darkatt]

Better to be called a worker, than a thief.

[Kenneth-Kaunda]

what class are the unemployed - should we start calling them 'lumpenproletariat'? lol

[old_cold]

Better a worker than a leech or an out-of-worker
But anyway, " a rose by any other name etc etc"

[alphamale]

Originally Posted by jambo101

I go to a factory every day for 40 years and work...What terminology would you like to apply instead of worker?

People working equates to something akin to communism?
I guess 47% of the people have evidently solved the working part that delema.

Employee.

[jambo101]

Originally Posted by alphamale

Employee.

You started this whole topic to split hairs over the semantics of worker as opposed to employee?
Heres some more we could use =

agent, apprentice, assistant, attendant, blue collar, breadwinner, clerk, cog, company person, , desk jockey, domestic, hired gun, hired hand, hireling, jobholder, , member, operator, pink collar, plug*, representative, sales help, salesperson, servant, slave, staff member, wage-earner, white collar, worker, working stiff artisan, blue collar, breadwinner, company person, craftsperson, , hand, help, laborer, nine-to-fiver, operative, peasant, proletarian, serf, slave, stiff, toiler, trader, tradesperson, wage earner, white collar, working person, working stiff