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    Quote Originally Posted by IMPress Polly View Post
    Well those pics in the OP were pics from Ordinary Left Land, where I spend some time. Here though is a fun pic from over in Far Left Land, where I find myself from time to time. Enjoy the infantile nature.

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    That's good stuff.

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    This is why I specified it was lifestyle communism, not political communism.
    What is lifestyle communism?

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    This one won't fit in a post, so I guess I'll just have to link to it. Check it out. This likewise is from Far Left Land, which I Occupy from time to time.

    And now...another bonus picture I'll have to link to because it won't fit. You KNEW I had to reference The Hunger Games SOMEWHERE in here since it just came out on video! This was my favorite pic from the official countdown. It was posted a number of weeks ago.

    (On another note, Chris asks: "What's lifestyle communism?" It's what it sounds like: collectivist principles you apply as a personal lifestyle with a group of others, as opposed to trying to make such things legally binding (and thus political). Hippie communes are an example of lifestyle communism. Just to answer that question.)
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    (On another note, Chris asks: "What's lifestyle communism?" It's what it sounds like: collectivist principles you apply as a personal lifestyle with a group of others, as opposed to trying to make such things legally binding (and thus political). Hippie communes are an example of lifestyle communism. Just to answer that question.)
    How does one apply collectivism personally?

    Ayn Rand on collectivism:
    Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called “the common good.”
    ~“The Only Path to Tomorrow,” Reader’s Digest, Jan, 1944, 8.
    Collectivism holds that, in human affairs, the collective—society, the community, the nation, the proletariat, the race, etc.—is the unit of reality and the standard of value. On this view, the individual has reality only as part of the group, and value only insofar as he serves it.
    ~Leonard Peikoff (ed.), The Ominous Parallels, 17

    More: http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/collectivism.html


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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    How does one apply collectivism personally?

    Ayn Rand on collectivism:
    ~“The Only Path to Tomorrow,” Reader’s Digest, Jan, 1944, 8.

    ~Leonard Peikoff (ed.), The Ominous Parallels, 17

    More: http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/collectivism.html


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    Chris wrote:
    How does one apply collectivism personally?
    Read the fuller statement I gave you. Allow me to highlight a key part:

    "...collectivist principles you apply as a personal lifestyle with a group of others..."

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    Quote Originally Posted by IMPress Polly View Post
    Read the fuller statement I gave you. Allow me to highlight a key part:

    "...collectivist principles you apply as a personal lifestyle with a group of others..."
    Still doesn't make the oxymoron meaningful. Collectivism negates the individual person. Now if that's not the case in your utopian vision, then your vision is not collectivist but something else.


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    Quote Originally Posted by IMPress Polly View Post
    Concerning Jesus, I think you're all a little confused. Christ and his earliest followers, in terms of their lifestyles, can be described as nothing but out and out communists. (Lifestyle communists, not political communists.) The Bible itself records that they lived by sharing their possessions in common. I'm not saying that I'm a Christian or anything or that I think the primitive type of organization the early Christians applied is a good one for modern-day people. I'm just saying that it's ridiculous for people to use Christ as some sort of mouthpiece for the capitalist system, as though he were a business tycoon of some sort.
    A case can likely be made for that, as there is some evidence that he was Essene, which was a commune-minded group at the time. Another case could be made for his being the original libertarian.

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    Greetings Liz.....Welcome to the Political Forums of the Rant!


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    Quote Originally Posted by MMC View Post


    Greetings Liz.....Welcome to the Political Forums of the Rant!


    Glad you made it in Liz.....Hope ya like the place!
    Thanks! I tried to sneak in quietly, and not make big waves.

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