Now, please try to convince me why such oppressive systems of government should be preferred to the democratic, free enterprise system of government of the United States of America. — charles ferraro
No democratic system has been tried either — paganarcher
Perhaps a non-totalitarian communism has never been tried in practice because real grownups know that such a thing is really nothing more than a utopian fairy tale — charles ferraro
Because it doesn't exist.First of all no non totalitarian form of communism has ever been tried. — paganarcher
Never heard of the proletarian dictatorship? You don't have to be a Friedrich Hayek to understand that the dictatorship of the proletariat will destroy personal freedom as completely as does an autocracy. Add to the ideology a "class enemy" and class struggle, and you surely will have a dictatorship.The ethos of communism is the opposite of dictatorship, we are simply not grown up enough to try it. — paganarcher
Yes, by the extermination of unwanted classes.Communist ideology stresses how crucial it is to bring about "classless societies." — charles ferraro
Today, the preferred method among Cultural Marxists is to bring about a Communist revolution through the infiltration and the subversion of the traditional, prevailing cultural values that support and help define our educational system at all levels, our economic system, our historical memory and identity, our military, our kinds of entertainment, our types of news media, our Judeo-Christian religious values, our public taste and moral standards, our Constitutional rights, our executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government, and the separation of powers. — charles ferraro
I think that you shouldn't the same mistake that leftist people do when talking about the right. Not everybody on the right is marching with tiki-torches fearing the jews will replace them, and so aren't the people on the left a homogenous mob.A rose by any other name! I perceive no clear divide ideologically, just shades of difference, or degrees of extremism. They all seek to demolish and replace the best (certainly not the most perfect) system of governance yet devised by humanity with what? More centralized, more totalitarian versions of governance based upon political correctness, cancel culture, group think, and even mindless violence? — charles ferraro
And do notice that many leftists do think so too and want to further their agenda exactly through the democratic process. And have no trouble with the values that the US was based on (the constitution and so on).As it was intended by the Founding Fathers and as it is structured still to this day, our system of governance does allow for significant change to occur through new legislation, through the courts, and through the vote! — charles ferraro
That's not what is said.Any form of dictatorship is NOT communism. — paganarcher
No. It simply isn't.One could argue that Socialism and Democracy are inherently antithetic concepts.
Socialism is nothing more than a provisional form of totalitarian International Socialism/Communism or, for that matter, a provisional form of totalitarian National Socialism/Fascism. — charles ferraro
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