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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: koan who wrote (747886)10/18/2013 7:16:30 PM
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" no one is a communist." Says koan. But koan also says:

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I have also been thinking a lot about the future and communism may have just been an idea ahead of its time. People like Plato could have gotten the idea and made it work. .....
To survive we will need a much more socialistic society/planet with much less differential in income and worth.
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This is really good. An animated explanation of a Marxist approach to the economic problems. DAK found it

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Which goes to illustrate another point Horowitz made:

The second feature of the progressive left that is key to understanding it is its instinctive, practiced, and indispensable dishonesty.As I previously noted, the Communists in the circles I frequented in my youth never identified themselves as Communists but always as “progressives” and “Jeffersonian democrats” (which is the last thing they were). When I was a young man and Stalin was alive, the goal of the Communist Party U.S.A. was a “dictatorship of the proletariat,” and a “Soviet America.” But under Stalin’s inspiration the official slogan of the Communist Party was “Peace, Jobs, and Democracy.”
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