Beck's tirade on Communism

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Originally Posted by Lycanmaster

The extreme right sure is getting PARANOID about seeing the spectre of scheming communist sympathizers around every street corner LMAO..

You are correct. Do not believe that communists, who vow to abolish private property, could ever infiltrate institutions and organizations.

Why, we are blessed with 75 years of Social Security, a war on poverty, the Great Society, and an alphabet soup of agencies staffed with innumerable bureaucrats poised to help us all.

Yes, the communists are to be laughed at, and ignored, for you are too smart to be fooled into selling yourself and your children into socialist slavery.

For you know, in your heart, that compulsory charity is not a curse, and being compelled to labor for the benefit of another, so that they may not suffer, is a moral thing. And it is good to punish those who do not willingly share, for what they earn doesn't really belong to them... it belongs to all of us.

And when government takes from you and yours, because you have "too much" and must "share your wealth", you will cheer and applaud, because you love Big Brother.

s.
Winston Smith.

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P.S. - capitalism only means private ownership of property. And if that ownership is absolute, it's private property - which is abolished by collectivists, regardless of their nomenclature. So I suspect that true capitalism does not exist, and only the illusion of capitalism is acted out to allay the fears of the sheeple.

Technically, there are no communist countries. Even the former U.S.S.R. admitted to have only achieved socialism.... just like the U.S.S.A. has.
The similarities are not so surprising, are they?

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Originally Posted by Jaggy001

The communist experiment is dead. It failed ignominiously when compared to capitalism. The choice we have now is between different flavors of capitalism from the state sponsored Chinese model via the more socially generous European one to the more laissez-faire American one.

Those who are railing against "communism" and "socialism" are missing the point. That is not the choice we have.

The communist experiment is dead. It failed ignominiously when compared to fascism. The choice we have now is between different flavors of corporatism from the state sponsored Chinese model via the more socially generous European one to the more scammy American one.

Those who are railing against "communism" and "socialism" are missing the point. That is not the choice we have.

[Lycanmaster]

Originally Posted by stillkit

I get tickled whenever certain people on the right resurrect the old "communist under every bed" argument. Obviously, that's targeted at we older folks who grew up during the time of the Cold War and who received a heavy dose of anti-communist indoctrination in the public schools. We've been programmed to instinctively react to the word "communist," in ways which younger people have not.

It doesn't mean much to younger people because they can remember when those same right-wing ideologues confidently announced the death of communism when the Berlin Wall came down. Remember? The Cold War is over! We won! Recall how that ol' cold warrior, Dick Cheney, used the so-called "peace dividend" to gut our armed forces? Why..he said, we don't need them anymore!

Now, for some reason, it seems they've brought the cold, dead corpse of communism back to life in a process which would make Dr. Frankenstein proud.

Hmmmmm. I wonder why? What's their objective? Lemme guess...could it be because the majority of the Tea Partiers are older folks who need to be pointed at a familiar enemy?

QFT. It's like the Cold War/Joe McCarthy era all over again!

[Lycanmaster]

Originally Posted by maschuette

Communism isn't dead, it exists in several countries, capitalism is the one that is being threatened and thats why we are so pissed off. "Capitalist" countries are slipping into more and more socialist societies. Why is that a problem? Ummm....have you been watching the news? Europe is rioting in the streets because their nanny state is comming apart. You people are hopeless.

Because its the natural progress of economies and societies taking its course. Maybe capitalism is the one thats always been "un-natural".