Why Socialism and Communism Are the Same

Any of that will be suppressed in short order.

Simple, they think the evil rich will pay for it all.

In reality if they want Euro style democratic socialism they are going to have to pay Euro style democratic socialist tax rates themselves and even at higher percentages.

Not likely, VA is going to get slammed down hard as soon as these new cases hit the federal courts.

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As an ideology, communism is generally regarded as hard-left, making fewer concessions to market capitalism and electoral democracy than do most forms of socialism . As a system of government, communism tends to center on a one-party state that bans most forms of political dissent.

Simple everyone wants some one else to foot the bill.

Mante*

If on were to drop in her they actually may think you know what you’re talking about however, every else knows you for what you are.

It’s just passive-aggressive trolling.

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You hit it exactly! Couldn’t have said it better myself!

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Unless everyone shares equally, down to the penny, it’s not socialism, it’s hypocrisy. What I said many times; if it’s all about “equality”, why do socialist leaders live better than the masses? Hmmmmmmmmmm

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What socialist leaders?

Local media have also been highly critical of Maduro’s spending habits, which they say amount to 1.8 million a day. And God only knows what he has stashed around the world. From what I understand, people in Venezuela are not too happy. Not even toilet paper; but then, since they are starving, technically they really don’t need toilet paper. I guess it works out.

Oh ok. Well I’m talking about democratic socialism in America that does not seek to dissolve capitalism which like many useful tools requires regulation.

Atta boy, encourage more government regulation.

KEY FINDINGS

Economic growth in the United States has, on average, been slowed by 0.8 percent per year since 1980 owing to the cumulative effects of regulation:

If regulation had been held constant at levels observed in 1980, the US economy would have been about 25 percent larger than it actually was as of 2012.
This means that in 2012, the economy was $4 trillion smaller than it would have been in the absence of regulatory growth since 1980.
This amounts to a loss of approximately $13,000 per capita, a significant amount of money for most American workers.

What’s needed is less regulation not more regulation.

But you want what everyone has at no cost to you.

What we have is a combination of Neo Socialism and Fascism with the left wanting to control virtually everything we do through legislation and regulation and tax us into poverty for the rest.

As Marx wrote socialism is the transition stage from capitalism to communism. No government has ever achieved communism, they got stuck in dictatorship.

Socialist countries like Venezuela and the USSR don’t allow opposition political parties nor any basic freedoms.

Scandinavian countries purported to be democratic socialism are actually capitalist economies feeding generous welfare states. For example Sweden has no minimum wage and universal school choice both directly contradict Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren policies. :grimacing:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2018/07/08/sorry-bernie-bros-but-nordic-countries-are-not-socialist/amp/

Capitalism is not a form of government.

Capitalism is an economic engine that is absent in socialism and communism. It thrives in a republic.

The USSR ceased to exist 30 years ago.

The United States is an evolving socialist state with economic capitalism whether you like that or not. Socialism IS big government, and whether or not you like that is moot, it is. And it’s not just social democrats, progressives and liberals that promote this. Though “conservatives” get your vote blowing smoke about limited government, they deliver as much expansion of government and social programs as the left.

George W. Bush rode into Washington almost eight years ago astride the horse of smaller government. He will leave it this winter having overseen the biggest federal budget expansion since Franklin Delano Roosevelt seven decades ago.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/19/big-government-gets-bigger/