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socialist_n_TN

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5. This does keep coming up.............

Reply to Starry Messenger (Original post)

Mon May 28, 2012, 10:26 AM

May 2012

I suppose because it's an effective piece of lying propaganda. It keeps the small shopkeeper and owner/operator scared of a system that would ultimately benefit him/her. The key phrase IMO is the one about businesses that PRECEDED the capitalist system.

The group I belong to is as fundamentally Bolshevik as you can get and we don't advocate nationalizing or expropriating the small business or the contractor. Even if you left out the theoretical, it's just not practical. Why would a economy involving trillions of dollars want to worry about an owner/operator grossing or even netting $20k ayear? That' just not practical.

Thanks again for pointing this out Starry. I guess we'll have to say it over and over again.

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Under Socialism, you get to keep your stuff. [View all] Starry Messenger May 2012 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Confusious May 2012 #1

??????????????????? JDPriestly May 2012 #2

Was there a question in there or did your cat get on the keyboard? Starry Messenger May 2012 #3

Having traveled to China long ago Mosaic May 2012 #4

This does keep coming up............. socialist_n_TN May 2012 #5

I hear it from students too, so it's getting taught this way on purpose. Starry Messenger May 2012 #6

And it is the way it is taught in civics classes. Odin2005 May 2012 #19

You get to keep your stuff and your religion. white_wolf May 2012 #7

My answer is that the early Bolshevik Party........ socialist_n_TN May 2012 #11

I agree, but it seems many leftists don't. white_wolf May 2012 #12

I think some folks on RevLeft just went through Marx with a hilighter pen Starry Messenger May 2012 #14

When I was still a Catholic, there social-justice teachings was what drew me to them. white_wolf May 2012 #15

During the October Revolution.......... socialist_n_TN May 2012 #16

I know a bunch of those kind of "Marxists" on campus, here. Odin2005 May 2012 #20

Awesome. limpyhobbler May 2012 #8

Good thread. I suspect that when people think "property" they are thinking about homes and small jwirr May 2012 #9

Thank you jwirr! Starry Messenger May 2012 #10

Even the family farms in states like Iowa are huge and run like factory farms. Here in Minnesota jwirr May 2012 #13

My boss's in-laws own an organic farm up in the McIntosh area. Odin2005 May 2012 #21

There is a huge distinction between personal property and private property in Marxism Taverner May 2012 #17

I get sick of correcting the "socialists want to take away my stuff" thing. Odin2005 May 2012 #18

expropriate the nation's candlestick makers BOG PERSON May 2012 #22

I take a tallow view of such shenanigans. nt Starry Messenger May 2012 #23

LOL! What a "flame" Starry........ socialist_n_TN May 2012 #24

:D Starry Messenger May 2012 #25