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| Chris | Feb 26 2012, 07:59 AM Post #31 |
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Damned nice insult, brewster, got anything better? "It was wealthy industrialists, very similar to those financing much of the US Right today." Despite your reference to a theology site, like most everything, brewster, you get this wrong too. Under Hitler the state controlled businesses which were free to the extent they did the bidding of the state. External support before the war came FDR and the Progressives who admired nazism and fascism, which were after all merely branches of socialism, same place your politics come from. Hitler, Mussolini, Roosevelt: "What FDR had in common with the other charismatic collectivists of the 30s" Hitler’s Mutual Admiration Society: "So why were people so enamored with Hitler? The major reason is that the 1930s were the period when capitalist countries were abandoning the philosophy of the free market and adopting the same socialist and interventionist economic policies that Hitler and his fellow socialists embraced." Edited by Chris, Feb 26 2012, 08:03 AM.
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| Chris | Feb 26 2012, 08:23 AM Post #32 |
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"There's something happening here but you don't know what it is do you Mr jones" ~Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man Here's your Oligarchy, you Plutarchy... USA Slipping and Sliding Towards Fascism
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| Brewster | Feb 26 2012, 10:25 AM Post #33 |
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Probably you don't, Jim. But it's too late - there are several Right Wingers on this board already, doing their best to destroy everything Americans have built over the last hundred years... Edited by Brewster, Feb 26 2012, 10:25 AM.
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| Chris | Feb 26 2012, 10:42 AM Post #34 |
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Yes, brewster, we want to stop the socialism you represent. |
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| Jim Miller | Feb 26 2012, 10:46 AM Post #35 |
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Your America hating tripe is not appreciated here, Brew. Try being a good neighbor for a change and tend to your own business. |
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| Stoney | Feb 26 2012, 09:47 PM Post #36 |
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Socialism/communism only works in the minds of those who have ignored history and ignore human nature, or don't understand either. |
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| Mountainrivers | Feb 26 2012, 10:00 PM Post #37 |
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Why do you guys keep bringing up socialism/communism? No one is suggesting either. |
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| Stoney | Feb 26 2012, 10:03 PM Post #38 |
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What you suggest isn't capitalism and I've asked several times what you (maybe not specifically) want to call it. Until you give me a name all I've got is socialism. Capitalism is the natural process of the free flow of products and services. |
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| Mountainrivers | Feb 26 2012, 10:06 PM Post #39 |
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Social democracy? "Contemporary[dubious – discuss] Social democracy is defined as a political movement that seeks to profoundly reform capitalism to align it with the ethical ideals of social justice, rather than creating an alternative socialist economic system[dubious – discuss].[3][4] Contemporary Social democratic policies include support for a welfare state, Keynesian macro-economic policies, and collective bargaining arrangements to balance the power of capital and labor" That's what I would call it. |
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| Stoney | Feb 26 2012, 10:29 PM Post #40 |
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Wikipedia That's the same things that Marx and Engels talked about, equal results instead of equal opportunity. Its still socialism/communism. |
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