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[ScaringChildren]

Originally Posted by Wonkie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

republicans can be socialists tho

Sure, why not

[ScaringChildren]

Originally Posted by America [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

serious question, why is it called "liber"alism if the whole point is to take "liber"ty away? me n my dad are having trouble figuring this

There are negative and positive liberties.

[Throndor]

The presumption that he exterminated only the aristocratics spokes of power present at the time of the bolsheviks rise to power. He exterminated anyone that did not wholly support his particular flavor of communism; a practice which continued well into and throught Stalin's subsequent reign.

[Throndor]

Originally Posted by ScaringChildren [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sure, why not

Exactly. Natzis were technically socialist as well.

[Patriam1066]

Originally Posted by Throndor [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The presumption that he exterminated only the aristocratics spokes of power present at the time of the bolsheviks rise to power. He exterminated anyone that did not wholly support his particular flavor of communism; a practice which continued well into and throught Stalin's subsequent reign.

Get over the Russians. The Chinese are the real threat. I’ve never met an attractive Chinese woman. China delenda est

[Wonkie]

Originally Posted by Throndor [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The presumption that he exterminated only the aristocratics spokes of power present at the time of the bolsheviks rise to power. He exterminated anyone that did not wholly support his particular flavor of communism; a practice which continued well into and throught Stalin's subsequent reign.

monarchists of all classes were exterminated. rightfully so!

[Throndor]

Hell, even the united states is technically socialist. The qualms of the left and the right are a matter of "purity" in the socialist approach. The left wants a more "pure" form of socialism, but history has taught us that diverging too far away from a more tempered stance on socialism leads to very bad places on both the left (communism) and the right (nazism)

[Throndor]

Granted, USA is, essentially, an amalgamation of socialism and capitalism because extemes in either direction both lead to the abolishment of private property.

[Throndor]

Trust me, nobody wants "pure" capitalism either.

[Throndor]

Correction, there are a very small number of people that would absolutely love laissez faire capitalism