It's Official: A Democratic President Offered to Cut Social Security

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77. That's sort of true.........

There are some pretty insensible versions of Marxism out there, thanks to Stalin's perversion of the original Bolshevik model which allowed a "cult of personality" to develop. That's the thing I look for when I see other groupings, that cult of personality. Externally, most democratic-centralist models might look alike. It's how they work INTERNALLY that makes the difference for me. Do they allow internal dissent and a democratic and free internal debate and vote on the issues? Or does one person or small group decide and ORDER it for the membership? That makes a difference.

However, that doesn't change my major point. IT'S NOT THE COMMUNISTS THAT ARE FORCING THIS CHOICE. It's the fascists. During my "salon revolutionary" stage, i.e., most of my life, I was perfectly willing to admit that capitalism had made a deal with socialism to allow it to function in a LESS (not none, but less) overtly class confrontational manner which would delay the necessity and conditions for revolution. I certainly did not expect it to come to a head in my lifetime over economics. Maybe imperialism, but not economics. Of course, that attitude just showed how naïve I was about capitalism. But the point remains, it will become an either/or choice because the fascists won't let it be anything else.