Drifting by the Storm

DriftingByTheStorm

Prince Of Dorkness wrote:

DriftingByTheStorm wrote:

Prince Of Dorkness wrote:

I reserve the right to at least laugh at people who complain about a "Socialist, Communist, Fascist Emperor" which is a contradiction in so many terms is rips a hole in the time/space continuum.

Actually,
TEXTBOOK, HISTORICAL Socialism
IS
Communism.

The ONLY difference between Textbook Historical Socialism and it's not so "cutesie" counterpart, Communism is a disagreement over the METHOD OF REVOLUTION.
PERIOD.
Communists believed that the capitalist system could withstand internal political pressure and that the only method of achieving REVOLUTION was through VIOLENT CONFLICT.

Socialists believed that over a long enough period, the internal pressures brought to bare on the Capitalist system ALONE would be enough, and that REVOLUTION could be achieved through an internal NON-VIOLENT reaction of the masses against their government. In other words, through the use of propaganda and social planning, by having their socialist agents infiltrating capitalist governments, media corporations, and educational institutions, that they could gradually superimpose their system on top of the capitalist one, and that over time the capitalist system could be weakened enough and driven far enough in to the red through deliberately reckless policy and overturning of moral values that THE PEOPLE WOULD RISE UP PEACEFULLY AND SAY "WE'VE HAD ENOUGH". (btw, doesn't this sound a WEE bit like what we have going on now? wink wink)

The only REAL difference between Socialism\Communism (LITERALLY IDENTICAL except for THE MEANS OF REVOLUTION) and Fascism is the METHOD OF CONTROL OF PRODUCTION.
In a Socialist\Communist system the money flows directly through the government, which outright owns and runs production. In a Fascist system, the sly devils ascribe the planning power directly to their own corporations which more or less ignore\have in their back pocket the government, except for the rules that they themselves (the owners of industry) want to have the government impose on "the market" (barriers to entry against competition).

Essentially, in Socialism\Communism, the State Owns Production
and in Fascism, Production Owns the State (though this is usually obscured from the "common folk").
Either way, it is the same situation, with an elite dictating down to the masses and running production.

Given that the United States is still in a hybrid state ...
in other words ... the Elite One World planners who so desperately want technocratic control over the globe (the same breed that worked through the Fabian Socialist Party of yore, and who were the money behind Communism of the early 20th Century) have done enough to work their political will in to US policy (since at LEAST McCarthy's day) that it has more than a few planks of the Communist Party installed but lacks the glaringly obvious framework that many expect of an outright Socialist\Communist country ... while still maintaining the some of the functional framework of capitalism ... but capitalism run in such a Crony \ Top Down, Central Monetary Planning method that it could HARDLY be called "Free Market" "Capitalism" ... it would almost RIGHTLY SEEM that the United States Political Economy IS some sort of hybrid Socialist-Fascist eocnomy.

To go EVEN FURTHER, if you try to research "WHAT IS FASCISM", you will start to see that it is POORLY DEFINED FROM THE OUTSET, stems from a more insular\isolationist economic world view (lets face it, most Fascist economies in recent history have been nations AT WAR with a larger set of nations, and is usually the primary reason they are both fascist - imminent need for government control - and insulated - all production is desperately needed WITHIN the country ... if they aren't at war, they usually were JUST PREVIOUSLY, and the "Fascism" is a political hold over\throw back) ... essentially "Fascism" as an ECONOMIC TERM is more nebulous than not ... and the concrete differences between Fascism (as popularly understood) and Socialism\Communism ARE RELATIVELY FEW (and also poorly defined)

Go ahead.
Try it.
Actually try and ARTICULATE enough differences in terms to rip that space time continuum apart. I'm big in to macrocosmic-quantum (talk about a contradiction) anomalies!

just a guess. you have a lot of cats, don't you?

My GF has 2, which I tolerate well.
I'm not that warm on cats, but i like Kat alright.
More of a Dog person myself, but its whatevs.

Why?
Cuz i type too much?