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Taverner

(55,476 posts) Wed Jul 17, 2013, 02:51 PM Jul 2013

Issues you kinda sorta side with the Communists on [View all]

This is not a joke thread - I just thought I'd take in the opposite direction.

If you know me, you know I'm a Communist Sympathizer at the least...

So, for me, the biggest is "From each, according to their ability. To each, according to their need."

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Issues you kinda sorta side with the Communists on [View all] Taverner Jul 2013 OP

Race KamaAina Jul 2013 #1

Yep. Of course the IWW was on the right side of race as early as the turn of the century Taverner Jul 2013 #2

The CP stood against South African apartheid long before it became fashionable in HardTimes99 Jul 2013 #14

Joe Slovo definitely deserves much more recognition than he got Taverner Jul 2013 #16

+1 Blue_Tires Jul 2013 #24

Well, if one looks at Marx's top 10 tenets..... sinkingfeeling Jul 2013 #3

Lemme throw a disclaimer in there: Private Property =/= Personal Property Taverner Jul 2013 #5

I'm not against private property, but I also demand some public property. sinkingfeeling Jul 2013 #6

A more equal distribution of wealth Eddie Haskell Jul 2013 #4

Destruction of royalty AngryAmish Jul 2013 #7

Technology, medicine, and other means of production being used for the betterment of humanity NuclearDem Jul 2013 #8

Today's Republicans are fascists by another name. (Interestingly, Karl Marx HardTimes99 Jul 2013 #9

They did. And Marx wrote a great piece about the Civil War. Taverner Jul 2013 #15

Agree: the majority of the diagnosis of the problems. geek tragedy Jul 2013 #10

Understood Taverner Jul 2013 #17

Specifics, please? - nt HardTimes99 Jul 2013 #18

You might be surprised. The CP were big boosters of Social Security, for example. Starry Messenger Jul 2013 #19

I said most. ;) geek tragedy Jul 2013 #20

:) Starry Messenger Jul 2013 #21

Even the Soviets tolerated mom and pop shops even during Stalinist times Taverner Jul 2013 #23

I know nothing about Communism olddots Jul 2013 #11

That speaks to the Anarchist in me Taverner Jul 2013 #13

I agree with your biggest! forestpath Jul 2013 #12

Vodka PD Turk Jul 2013 #22

"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas...The ruling ideas are nothing HiPointDem Jul 2013 #25