Marxism working as predicted...

[JimC]

Seth wrote:

Marxism is exceedingly good at killing economies and entrepreneurship because it thinks that proletarian equality of outcomes is more important than capitalistic equality of opportunity and the creation of wealth through excellence and hard work.

I think you are largely correct when dealing with true Marxist societies, virtually all in the past. Perhaps, going back to the OP, Venezuela is veering unwisely in that direction; only time will tell...

The absurdity comes when you think that virtually all western countries other than the US are fully socialist at heart. The truth is that free enterprise is alive and well, and making money all over the world, happily co-existing with governments who dare to have a political direction not approved by Seth...

[Ian]

He's not speaking harsh truths, he's speaking harsh fears. The whole conservative mindset is based on fear, so the ones at the far end of the bell curve are downright paranoid about everything.

It's not paranoid to see that Marxism is out to destroy our way of life, because it's blatantly obvious that's exactly what it's trying to do...and unfortunately all too often succeeding at doing.

Fear of Marxist Progressivism is a perfectly rational and well-documented fear that everyone ought to pay attention to and deal with.

Nooo, not paranoid at all.

Do us a favor: run a search on all your posts and tally up for us the frequency that you use the terms Marxist or Marxism. Then describe in detail your personal bunker and arsenal.

[Seth]

He's not speaking harsh truths, he's speaking harsh fears. The whole conservative mindset is based on fear, so the ones at the far end of the bell curve are downright paranoid about everything.

It's not paranoid to see that Marxism is out to destroy our way of life, because it's blatantly obvious that's exactly what it's trying to do...and unfortunately all too often succeeding at doing.

Fear of Marxist Progressivism is a perfectly rational and well-documented fear that everyone ought to pay attention to and deal with.

Nooo, not paranoid at all.

Do us a favor: run a search on all your posts and tally up for us the frequency that you use the terms Marxist or Marxism. Then describe in detail your personal bunker and arsenal.

If it walks like a Marxist, talks like a Marxist and smells like a Marxist, chances are it's a Marxist. I see Marxists all over the place because they are all over the place. It's only the useful idiots who deny this.

[JimC]

Seth wrote:

I see Marxists all over the place

Someone has to post this, may as well be me...

Well, I was feelin' sad and kind of blue
I didn't know what I was gonna do
The Communists were comin' around
They was in the air, they were on the ground
They were all over

So I ran down most hurriedly
And joined the John Birch Society
I got me a secret membership card
Went back to my backyard
And started looking on the sidewalk
'Neath the rose bush

Well, I was lookin' everywhere for them gold darned Reds
I got up in the mornin' and looked under my bed
Looked behind the kitchen, behind the door
Even tore loose the kitchen floor, couldn't find any

I looked beneath the sofa, beneath the chair
Looking for them Reds everywhere
I looked way up my chimney hole
Even looked deep inside my toilet bowl
They got away

I heard some footsteps by the front porch door
So I grabbed my shotgun from the floor
I snuck around the house with a huff and hiss and
"Hands up, you Communist" it was a mail man
He punched me out

Well, I quit my job so I could work alone
I got a magnifying glass like Sherlock Holmes
Followed some clues from my detective bag
And discovered they was red stripes on the American flag
Did you know about Betsy Ross

Well, I was sittin' home alone and I started to sweat
I figured they was in my television set
I peeked behind the picture frame
And got a shock from my feet that hit my brain
Them Reds did it, no one's on the hootin' nanny

Well, I finally started thinkin' straight
When I run outta things to investigate
I couldn't imagine doin' anything else
So now I'm at home investigatin' myself
Hope, I don't find out too much, good God



Read more: Bob Dylan - Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues Lyrics | MetroLyrics

[Seth]

Seth wrote:

I see Marxists all over the place

Someone has to post this, may as well be me...

Well, I was feelin' sad and kind of blue
I didn't know what I was gonna do
The Communists were comin' around
They was in the air, they were on the ground
They were all over

So I ran down most hurriedly
And joined the John Birch Society
I got me a secret membership card
Went back to my backyard
And started looking on the sidewalk
'Neath the rose bush

Well, I was lookin' everywhere for them gold darned Reds
I got up in the mornin' and looked under my bed
Looked behind the kitchen, behind the door
Even tore loose the kitchen floor, couldn't find any

I looked beneath the sofa, beneath the chair
Looking for them Reds everywhere
I looked way up my chimney hole
Even looked deep inside my toilet bowl
They got away

I heard some footsteps by the front porch door
So I grabbed my shotgun from the floor
I snuck around the house with a huff and hiss and
"Hands up, you Communist" it was a mail man
He punched me out

Well, I quit my job so I could work alone
I got a magnifying glass like Sherlock Holmes
Followed some clues from my detective bag
And discovered they was red stripes on the American flag
Did you know about Betsy Ross

Well, I was sittin' home alone and I started to sweat
I figured they was in my television set
I peeked behind the picture frame
And got a shock from my feet that hit my brain
Them Reds did it, no one's on the hootin' nanny

Well, I finally started thinkin' straight
When I run outta things to investigate
I couldn't imagine doin' anything else
So now I'm at home investigatin' myself
Hope, I don't find out too much, good God



Read more: Bob Dylan - Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues Lyrics | MetroLyrics

It's very typical Marxist/Alinsky behavior to mock and jape at the very idea that Marxism exists. Dylan himself was a communist sympathizer and well-known left-wing activist, along with Joan Baez and many other "folk singers" of the period who all thought socialism and communism were a good thing for America.

Fact is that what Dylan was referring to happens to be absolutely true. The government was infested with communists, spies and fellow travelers, and it still is.

McCarthy was 100 percent correct.

[JimC]

[rainbow]

This isn't Marxism, but an example of State Capitalism.

State capitalism is usually described as an economic system in which commercial (i.e. for-profit) economic activity is undertaken by the state, with management and organization of the means of production in a capitalist manner, including the system of capital accumulation, wage labor, and centralized management.




State capitalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism

It is therefore proof that Capitalism doesn't work.

[Svartalf]

Seth wrote:

Marxism is exceedingly good at killing economies and entrepreneurship because it thinks that proletarian equality of outcomes is more important than capitalistic equality of opportunity and the creation of wealth through excellence and hard work.

I think you are largely correct when dealing with true Marxist societies, virtually all in the past. Perhaps, going back to the OP, Venezuela is veering unwisely in that direction; only time will tell...

The absurdity comes when you think that virtually all western countries other than the US are fully socialist at heart. The truth is that free enterprise is alive and well, and making money all over the world, happily co-existing with governments who dare to have a political direction not approved by Seth...

especially when you remember that soviet bloc states did have a measure of free enterprise and commerce, mostly small scale and unofficial, but still tolerated and flourishing (or the entrepreneurs would just have stopped)

[mistermack]

Obama is not a socialist, he is a lifetime hard-core Marxist. He was raised and educated by Marxists. His friends are Marxists. His ideology is Marxism, and he plays a Progressive to the world in order to fool the useful idiots of Marxism into thinking he's not a Marxist, but he is.

He's your president though. He's the winner, and you're the loser.
Adapt or die.

Or, because no President dares to try to hold on to power when his term is up because of the armed citizenry, wait another year and some and someone else will take office.

Like the slaves. They only had to wait, and one day, slavery was abolished.
But a lot died waiting.
I have a feeling you'll be long dead, before someone who is a non-socialist on your scale gets elected.

[Seth]

See, mockery. Just as I told you. Marxism is as Marxism does.

[Blind groper]

Understanding Seth is easy.
You just have to realise that he has been so brainwashed that all them poor little dirty brain cells has bin washed riiiight outta his haid.

[Seth]

Understanding Seth is easy.
You just have to realise that he has been so brainwashed that all them poor little dirty brain cells has bin washed riiiight outta his haid.

See, I told you, mockery and insult to deflect from the truth about Marxism. Classic Marxist/Alinsky tactic.

[Ian]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtLEPPgbNyM

[JimC]

I wittily comment

You mock

He trolls

[Seth]

I wittily comment

You mock

He trolls

Were you trying to conjugate a verb?