anyone up for one of these discussions....Namdrol wrote:
This is due to the fact that all of the economic struggles waged by Socialists that led to the great freedom of thought that flourished in the mid-twentieth century have largely been undermined in the global capitalist hegemony.
topics can wander all over the place....no such thing as off topic in this thread...
this thread is about capitalism/socialism and communism.
somewhere online we have all read where someone likened the Buddha to a communist.
Which i don't think He was.
maybe we can all start with what your bent or wish for a society is.
I'm a socialist through and through.
I think we owe it to one another to help the weak and allow the strong to do what they do best.
For the rich this affords them a more peaceful place to dwell in...The poor realize the rich are helping them. No threats of over throwing them or tossing eggs at their top hats...
i would go as far as saying that anything earned over one million dollars should be taxed 50% with no shelters or loop holes...
I was a communist thinking person at one time..to the point where even Lenin looked like some bourgeois from his dress and his fixation for facial hair...not to mention his lifestyle..
the whole fake Mao in his military dress was obvious a con when we view his life and lust for little girls and such....
apparently he never brushed his teeth and girls have come forward to say he was a pig....
Stalin died of syphilis and also had a lust for young girls.....i wonder how many died syphilitic due to his raping them...
these people were not true communists...they lived a very lavish lifestyle and ate and drank the best and lived in the best of conditions in countries where people died of starvation and no health care....
as for Namdrol's statement
socialism does afford us freedom of thought...it isn't hampered by capitalistic governments worried about their loss of power and the propaganda they defend in order to keep the rich disgustingly rich living next to the impoverished and the working poor ,working and living in sub standard conditions...
health care is obvious both in Canada and the untied states to be a sham for the poor.All the Rich in Canada go to the best hospitals in the states for serious stuff...
Our health care system is in tatters up here....a plethora of lousy doctors ...most of the really good ones go the states..
flakes r us ......Canada's health system for the most part....
why this:
for me it is about the threats that no longer are a worry for the mega rich.the global capitalist hegemony
Communism is dead.....No chance of it's revival anywhere
wars are now won with zero casualties.
the German war toys of WWII proved to be the thing of the future...
the first Iraq war we killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqui sodiers....they killed something like 3 of us and we killed 124 of own with friendly fire...
the 2nd Iraq war i think it was like they killed one of us and we killed 14 by friendly fire....we killed another few hundred thousand....
so no worries....we don't need your children for cannon fodder anymore....screw you....
anyone care to jump in....
