The following is a 5 message exchange between 3 users
@lemans3427Republican5mos5MO
Socialism at it finest!
@Patriot-#1776Constitution5mos5MO
Oh, you haven't seen anything yet. Look at the hundreds of millions murdered by Stalin in the USSR.
@9CJ6CB65mos5MO
The man was a dictator, but on the scale of things, not really much of a socialist.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution5mos5MO
For your information, socialism and communism are not the same thing. Communism is a form of anarchism – have you ever read the Communist Manifesto as I have? – it believes in classless and stateless utopia where everyone contributes to the "common stock" and takes only what they need from it. Socialism, they believe, is the path to get to these anarchist utopia – they must have an incredibly large government that socialises healthcare, nationalises industries, breaks up monopolies, sets wages and prices, spies on its citizens, and taxes the rich to hell, and redistributes wealth. You're wrong – Joseph Stalin was a textbook socialist!
@9CJ6CB65mos5MO
It is BECAUSE I understand the difference that I don’t consider him as such. Stalin violated a thousand strong tenets of socialism, such as a free press and democratic government. He even said himself, “Freedom of the press, too, is a kind of beauty which one must have loved to be able to defend. It is something which I love truly, whose existence I feel to be essential, to be necessary to me so that without it I cannot live at peace, or live a full life”. Marx did not approve of or support most anything Stalin did. Everyone regretted him once he died, everyone feared and despised him. He’s not a part of that, and if he’s a socialist, he’s not really a good one, gotta admit.
