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Socialist Progressives

BOG PERSON

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22. expropriate the nation's candlestick makers

Reply to Starry Messenger (Original post)

Wed May 30, 2012, 05:59 PM

May 2012

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Under Socialism, you get to keep your stuff. [View all] Starry Messenger May 2012 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Confusious May 2012 #1

??????????????????? JDPriestly May 2012 #2

Was there a question in there or did your cat get on the keyboard? Starry Messenger May 2012 #3

Having traveled to China long ago Mosaic May 2012 #4

This does keep coming up............. socialist_n_TN May 2012 #5

I hear it from students too, so it's getting taught this way on purpose. Starry Messenger May 2012 #6

And it is the way it is taught in civics classes. Odin2005 May 2012 #19

You get to keep your stuff and your religion. white_wolf May 2012 #7

My answer is that the early Bolshevik Party........ socialist_n_TN May 2012 #11

I agree, but it seems many leftists don't. white_wolf May 2012 #12

I think some folks on RevLeft just went through Marx with a hilighter pen Starry Messenger May 2012 #14

When I was still a Catholic, there social-justice teachings was what drew me to them. white_wolf May 2012 #15

During the October Revolution.......... socialist_n_TN May 2012 #16

I know a bunch of those kind of "Marxists" on campus, here. Odin2005 May 2012 #20

Awesome. limpyhobbler May 2012 #8

Good thread. I suspect that when people think "property" they are thinking about homes and small jwirr May 2012 #9

Thank you jwirr! Starry Messenger May 2012 #10

Even the family farms in states like Iowa are huge and run like factory farms. Here in Minnesota jwirr May 2012 #13

My boss's in-laws own an organic farm up in the McIntosh area. Odin2005 May 2012 #21

There is a huge distinction between personal property and private property in Marxism Taverner May 2012 #17

I get sick of correcting the "socialists want to take away my stuff" thing. Odin2005 May 2012 #18

expropriate the nation's candlestick makers BOG PERSON May 2012 #22

I take a tallow view of such shenanigans. nt Starry Messenger May 2012 #23

LOL! What a "flame" Starry........ socialist_n_TN May 2012 #24

:D Starry Messenger May 2012 #25

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