It is a pain in the arse, will somebody fix it already?Don't tell me how to quote in my own forum. Theres a forum bug, i'm not going to edit a post once its posted and go through fixing quotes just because your unhappy.
Stalin merely displayed how easily corruptable the system is. Think about it, the second leader, and already they ended up with an evil dictator.Lenin didn't commit mass murder. He didn't say "i don't like him, shoot him" like stalin did. Stalinism is what we saw from 1940 - the fall of the soviet union. If you disagree fair enough, but stalinism could be said to be based on feudalism as the system was extremely close. Stalin distorted the image of communism, he lost the vision and millions of people worldwide suffered gravely from it.
No, it's about everyone being exactly the same, and destroying freedom. Equality is nice, but everyone being exactly the same isn't, a free market is the basis of freedom, as it allows for someone other than the government to have power.Socialism is not kill all those fuckers who disagree with us, its about everyone being equal and having the freedoms that capitalism restricts.
Yes, we give you freedom, so long as you don't chose to believe anything that we don't believe in.He meant religion. Marx was against religion because he saw it as a way for the bourgeisue to exploit the workers, and to an extent it is true.
What the hell are you talking about? War is a human inevitability, there will always be someone to fight. The USSR would have remaned the brutal dictatorship that it was until it's fall, simply because it was necessary as no one really wanted to be under their control.Hitler was extreme right. Unless you wish to set out on one of your tireless crusades to change history, accept it. He was extreme right. He was totally the opposite to socialists. Everyone equal. He believed in a hierarchial structure in which the middle class lead the way. The middle class is mainly who hitler targetted as they generally shared the same prejudices as him. Socialism is for the working class to free them from corruption and exploitation they receive under fascism and capitalism. Socialism is against typically against war. Pacifists are usually left wing. Problems with russia was they were built on war and they had to compete with the US to ensure they still had dominance throughout the world. If that had not been the case, i'm sure the USSR would have never gone backrupt and would have turned into the liberal socialism that communism is supposed to be.
It's to early to tell how it's working.Thats why britains economy is the strongest it has ever been, thats why people have never been so happy with labour, thats why they just won a third term, thats why blair is resigning (from his centre-right post of the labour party to be replaced with brown who is left wing). Thats also why spain is against war and many spanish people are happy with their new government.
You need to visit America...Look up other socialist countries before you blabber on a load of shit. Most of them are more successful than capitalism. To the point america and its corporate capitalism, most of your children live in poverty, medicare is being cut and probably will no longer exist in the near future. Many of your soliders are coming home with no benefits and unable to work. Your unemployment is rising and your economy getting worse every day. Compare capitalist america to socialist britain and you'll see socialism works in its moderate form, which is the form i support. Now just if it was more liberal a lot of more people would be happy.
Yes, and that's never found in left wingers. For shits sake, all's I hear from 90% of the people here is how evil capitalism is, regardless of what history indicates.Its so typical for a right-winger. Everything thats evil to him is considered left-wing, even if it violates human history.
War itself doesn't boost the economy. This isn't the 1800's where we get to keep what we invade. America has had it's highs and lows, the fact of the matter is capitalism tends to bounce back, because capitalism is a competitive system.War boosts economy. Iraq. US government is on the verge of bankruptcy. No need to say more, other then it looks as America is coming nearer and nearer to the fate of the Soviet Union.
