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    Quote Originally Posted by Common Sense View Post
    You figured out our evil plan.

    We also hate hate puppies and kittens.
    Don't be a snark. Socialism sucks. It is the reason for the thread. Socialism always sounds good, the problem is there is zero evidence of it working anywhere. Some time it spreads upon a society by quick violent revolution, other time is spreads its filthy paws gradually. The end result is always the same.

    Guillotine or Gulag............your choice
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    Quote Originally Posted by Common Sense View Post
    I think you mean Communism.

    The confusion is this. Socialism as invented by Henri de Saint-Simon and others was just a way to organize society around the social ownership of the means of production. Marx and Lenin viewed this as too utopian, too libertarian to their authoritarianism, something the people would never achieve, and drew up a manifesto in which the dictatorship of the proletariat by the vanguard was called socialism, a step toward the implementation of communism.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Admiral Ackbar View Post
    Don't be a snark. Socialism sucks. It is the reason for the thread. Socialism always sounds good, the problem is there is zero evidence of it working anywhere. Some time it spreads upon a society by quick violent revolution, other time is spreads its filthy paws gradually. The end result is always the same.

    Guillotine or Gulag............your choice
    The French Revolution wasn't socialist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Common Sense View Post
    You don't like dogs or children?
    You have already admitted to hating puppies and kittens. What I like or dislike is irrelevant, isn't it? You are the socialist. You are the one who is evil.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Common Sense View Post
    The French Revolution wasn't socialist.
    The French Revolution was an example of the dangers of democracy. Rule of the mob.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Common Sense View Post
    The French Revolution wasn't socialist.
    Was it leftist?
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    You have already admitted to hating puppies and kittens. What I like or dislike is irrelevant, isn't it? You are the socialist. You are the one who is evil.
    You really crack me up.

    I'm not a socialist or evil and I love puppies and kittens.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Common Sense View Post
    The French Revolution wasn't socialist.
    Right, it was Rousseauian.
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    When Napoleon heard of the French Revolution he asked why had not the artillery fired upon the mob. He was told that the French monarch does not fire on his citizens. Napoleon said had he, he would still have his head.
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    French Revolution most certainly was a socialist movement. They didn't call it that but all the elements are there. The class warfare (compare) this to the American Revolution. The denouncing and cleansing of society. The imperative for political purity in the pursuit of Equality, Liberty and Fraternity...

    Equal outcomes were demanded. In the end those outcomes were enforced at the Guillotine!

    Sound familiar????
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