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claudette
(5,455 posts)really care if WAPO approves? I don’t.
Janbdwl72
(219 posts)think4yourself
(860 posts)That’s what’s so delicious about all this.
tanyev
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brush
(61,018 posts)Come on, capital/money has to circulate in a capitalist society or it fails. There is no extant socialist society that is successful, nor has there ever been.
Troktsky. Lenin, Stalin, Khruschev, Brezhnev tried it. All failed. Gorbechov tried to. reform it but was forced out by drunkard Yeltsin, only to yield to whatever Putin is.
Socialism/communism doesn't work. Let's not fool ourselves. Societies work by quality products and services being created and their creators get compensated for their time, labor and creativity by charging a reasonable profit for themselves.
msongs
(72,199 posts)brush
(61,018 posts)Fascist Hitler stupidly invaded Russia too late in the year and the Russian winter, as well as the Soviets defeated him.
So many don't seem to know much about history here. Disappointing.
msongs
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Here is the well know motto of socialists.
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs "
The Party/government owns the means of production...everything. No private ownership in business to make profits.
That is Karl Marx's description/theory of socialism, free access to and distribution of goods, capital and services.
Hugo Boss Was an Active Nazi Who Produced Uniforms For the Brown Shirts, SS, and Hitler Youth. In 2013, comedian Russell Brand was kicked out of a GQ magazine’s Men of the Year Awards shindig, after cracking jokes about the event’s sponsor, Hugo Boss, and its Nazi ties.
Volkswagen Was Founded by Ferdinand Porsche, and the Cute Beetle Was Hitler’s Dream Car.
BMW’s Owners Were Hitler’s Close Friends. Ever since its founding, Bavarian Motor Works, or BMW, have been known for their high quality luxury automobiles, and until 1945, for their aircraft engines.
Thyssen, Krupp, IG Farben, Bosch, Blaupunkt, Daimler-Benz, Demag, Henschel, Junkers, Messerschmitt, Philips, Siemens and Walther were. all were private industristrialists in business to make a profit. That doesn't exist in socialist societies, communism is a form of socialism btw so ya can't be fooled by the nazi's title for themselves.
May 8, 2019 · Memory of Nazi crimes associated with big business and industrialists was thus relatively short lived within postwar Germany, with many corporations only apologizing to or repatriating Jewish victims years or decades after the atrocities of the Holocaust.
assets.cambridge.org › 97805218 › 03298Business and Politics: Banks and Companies in Nazi Germany
Dan
(4,903 posts)brush
(61,018 posts)I'm sure you've seen photos of the hundreds of thousands Germany troops, starving and freezing captured by the Soviets because, like someone we know, Hitler knew better than his generals and started the invasion too late and on top of that he divided his forces into three salients.
brush
(61,018 posts)despite their title for themselves.
They were fascists despite the name, along with Mussolini of Italy and Franco of Spain.
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Here is the well know motto of socialists.
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs", by Karl Marx who theorized socialism in the 19th century.
The Party/government owns the means of production...everything. No private ownership in business to make profits.
That is Karl Marx's description/theory of socialism, free access to and distribution of goods, capital and services.
Hugo Boss Was an Active Nazi Who Produced Uniforms For the Brown Shirts, SS, and Hitler Youth. In 2013, comedian Russell Brand was kicked out of a GQ magazine’s Men of the Year Awards shindig, after cracking jokes about the event’s sponsor, Hugo Boss, and its Nazi ties.
Volkswagen Was Founded by Ferdinand Porsche, and the Cute Beetle Was Hitler’s Dream Car.
BMW’s Owners Were Hitler’s Close Friends. Ever since its founding, Bavarian Motor Works, or BMW, have been known for their high quality luxury automobiles, and until 1945, for their aircraft engines.
Thyssen, Krupp, IG Farben, Bosch, Blaupunkt, Daimler-Benz, Demag, Henschel, Junkers, Messerschmitt, Philips, Siemens and Walther were. all were private industristrialists in business to make a profit. That doesn't exist in socialist societies, communism is a form of socialism btw so ya can't be fooled by the nazi's title for themselves.
displacedvermoter
(3,904 posts)Not as good as Cuomo?
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whathehell
(30,249 posts)something successfully practised by a number of our European allies. It is not pure "Socialism" and a very far cry from "Communism".
SSJVegeta
(1,304 posts)brush
(61,018 posts)SSJVegeta
(1,304 posts)brush
(61,018 posts)Their more in the vein of socialists/communists. The rethugs are writing their campaign ads as we speak.
SSJVegeta
(1,304 posts)... is in fact a dem
brush
(61,018 posts)Look it up. Democrats are capitalists as we live in a capitalist society.
SSJVegeta
(1,304 posts)Look it up 
He also was ENDORSED by the Democratic Socialists of America.
He was even endorsed by The Working Families Party. But you know what?
He is still a registered Democrat who received the Democratic nomination and is running as a DEMOCRAT 
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SSJVegeta
(1,304 posts)There have been Democrats who are right wing white supremacists like George Wallace innthe 60s, and other Democrats who have identified as Democratic Socialists like AOC.
Trying to put them in an ideological box is just plain silly.
He is both a member of the Democratic Party and ideologically a social democrat -of which FDR implemented major policies like the New Deal resembled.
Gore1FL
(22,579 posts)We simply build our coalitions before the elections rather than after.
Beyond labels, there are certain strategies that tend to build larger coalitions.
When the anger among the vast vast majority of Americans is so palpable against all of the establishment, providing a solution for addressing why that angers exists and abandoning the unpopular establishment policies with reasonable level headed ones (like taxing the rich and providing alternative ways of obtaining prohibitively expensive basic necessities), is probably best.
Ritabert
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Ocelot II
(126,783 posts)You don't own NYC, though, so STFU. Anyhow, I thought you told us WaPo had decided to stop opining about politicians.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
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regnaD kciN
(27,227 posts)…that the WaPo’s editorial page must support “free-market capitalism.” Is it surprising they’d be required by their boss to oppose Mamdani?