Why is Chris Matthews Comparing Bernie to Mao Tse Tsung? (video)

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38. For any of you who didn't see it

today in the video forum someone posted a link to Robert Reich talking about Socialism for Dummies. It's one of his monthly talks, and it's followed up by a part two from the next month (I posted that video) and they are both excellent. He explains how Feudalism turned into capitalism, and how Marx wanted to come up with a system that gave people equality, because neither feudalism or capitalism did that, and he came up with socialism. The Russia was taken over by a group of socialists who never got around to turning Russia into a socialist country...instead they just kept it as a government controlled state and renamed it communism (they split from socialism). Now everyone thinks that communism and socialism are the same thing, when in fact communism is a state form of capitalism. My explanation is really brief (and there is so much info in those two videos, there is no way to capture it all in a synopsis).

He's really very good and spells it out so well, even though both videos are about two hours long, I really think it's in our best interest for everyone who can to watch them, and then maybe we will be better armed to try to teach people the difference between socialism and communism and state capitalism (like Russia). Someone needs to inform Chris Matthews of this, and even Thom Hartmann made it sound a little confusing by saying Bernie's kind of socialism, as if communism is just another kind of socialism...it isn't. So maybe I'll send those youtube links to Thom too.

Here is the link to the video thread.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=285916