News Flash: Most Republicans Are Socialists, Too

[mystery-ak]

November 18, 2020
News Flash: Most Republicans Are Socialists, Too
By Allen Gindler

Many people ask how we got to this point in our country, where everything now hangs in the balance, and the socialist takeover is quite real.  The answer to this question is twofold.

First, neither ordinary people nor public opinion leaders understand what socialism is, although there is a lot of literature on this topic.  However, there are very few academics whose works correctly describe the essence of socialism.  Their lonely voices drown in the stream of misconceptions about the subject.

The first misapprehension is that socialism is solely equated with Marxism and Marx's materialist philosophical concepts.  The materialist definition of socialism posits communal ownership of the means of production, collective management, and distribution of wealth.  However, socialism is a generic notion, and Marxism is a theory of communism, the particular and extreme current of socialism.  Therefore, Marxism is undoubtedly socialistic, but it does not encompass the whole of socialism.  The materialist understanding of socialism missed a significant subject of collectivization: the individual himself.  Since the time of Plato, it has been known that socialism presupposes the subordination of the individual to the collective, which means the construction of a hierarchical society in which the elites rule the state and the commoners obey meekly.

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[mountaineer]

You may be surprised, but the obligatory minimum wage rate is socialism; the proportional taxation system is socialism; rampant unionization including law enforcement and government employees is socialism; even mandatory car insurance is socialism.

Nope, not surprised.

The actual right party is a party that advocates for individual and economic freedom, supports the American constitution, and recognizes American exceptionalism.  Perhaps the American people still hold to these ideas, but the Republican Party does not reflect them in their deeds.  Moreover, leaders' recent statements are astonishing.  Rubio said to Fox News's Hannity, "I think the future of the Republican Party is as a multiethnic, multiracial, working-class party."  Did he mean that the Republicans are racist, as the left claims?  Where does he get this leftist terminology: the working class, the proletariat?  It was Marx who divided society according to the place that people occupy in production.  His classification is meaningless outside his erroneous theory.  Yet GOP officials continue to use left-wing jargon instead of opposing the Democratic position and firmly defending individual and economic freedoms.

No argument from me.

[Fishrrman]

Premise of article:
"Most Republicans Are Socialists, Too"

Some might be, some might not.

But one thing is also certain, as per "the word of the Fishrrman":
Most democrats are now communists, too.

Who here would disagree...?

[Cyber Liberty]

Premise of article:
"Most Republicans Are Socialists, Too"

Some might be, some might not.

But one thing is also certain, as per "the word of the Fishrrman":
Most democrats are now communists, too.

Who here would disagree...?

Not me, Fishrr.

[goatprairie]

Premise of article:
"Most Republicans Are Socialists, Too"

Some might be, some might not.

But one thing is also certain, as per "the word of the Fishrrman":
Most democrats are now communists, too.

Who here would disagree...?

Me. While a growing number of Dem pols are commies, many are simply parasites leeching off the taxpayer putting their fingers in the wind to keep their phony-baloney jobs. They don't want to kill the goose that laid the golden egg, they just want to suck as much blood out of it as they can.
Most average Dem voters are gullible fools. Most Dem females are one-issue (abortion) voters.
They'd eagerly switch parties if the Pubbies and Dems swapped positions on the issue.
The Dem Party is the party of the ignorati.