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originally posted by: Ohanka
a reply to: ThirdEyeofHorus
There is near 0 support for Communism in the US.
Even the self-proclaimed "Marxists" are committed to supporting the status quo and violently silencing critics of it & suppressing any attempt to change it. This is because they don't actually support Marxism, or even know what it is. They simply like the sound of it and possibly the aesthetics. Or are just very stupid. Probably the latter.
What you call "Communism" would give Karl Marx a stroke, cause Lenin to pop an aneurysm and convert Trotsky to Fascism. It is the probably the single thing furthest removed from Communism that has ever been conceived.
Even if one were to argue it is "American Communism" it is still so far removed from the original idea that it would serve as little more than a marketing term that even someone with an entry-level understanding would see right through.
I don't think any actual serious Communist who genuinely believed in Communism would last long in the US. I don't see Blackrock, Vanguard, Amazon, Alphabet, et. al. tolerating all that talk of public ownership, nationalisation, universal equality and the purging of the Bourgeoise. That would be stamped down pretty quickly I reckon. Presumably under the guise of "resisting fascism" which would be very entertaining.
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: AOx6179
Then you can post an example of me posting any such thing?
Go on then.
I challenge you to do that.
I'll wait.
Over to you to back up your lies.
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: AOx6179
Interesting.
You replied to my post, not "others".
So, put up or shut up.
Where have I ever posted what you claimed?
Over to you.
originally posted by: Ohanka
a reply to: ThirdEyeofHorus
From what i've seen Agenda 21 is a form of Corporate Feudalism. Which is about the furthest thing from Communism or Socialism.
originally posted by: Ohanka
a reply to: ThirdEyeofHorus
You literally cannot be a Communist and a Capitalist at the same time. They are mutually incompatible ideas.
Corporations don't support Communism. Corporations support Corporate Oligarchy (strangely enough). Under Communism the corporations would not exist and likely neither would the people who head them. Communists take a rather dim view of the Bourgeoise after all.
I have no idea what you think Communism is but it certainly isn't anything Marx & Engeles wrote down. Or Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Trotsky, Hoxha, Castro, Che, Kim Il-sung, Pol Pot or even Posadas (he was quite the nutty one) wrote down.
originally posted by: Ohanka
a reply to: ThirdEyeofHorus
From a Marxist perspective, capitalism leads to socialism, socialism leads to communism. Every communist is a socialist but not every socialist is a communist. Not all socialists accept Marx’s proposed evolution of human society.
Communism is a proposed classless, stateless society in which all that divides people have been abolished. Scarcity is a thing of the past. Coercion and exploitation are no more since the scarcity of resources that ultimately drove them is no longer an issue. In essence it is a Utopian vision of society.
Communists are those who seek to realise this vision. Marx personally was against Communism as a political movement as he held the belief it would emerge naturally over time. The Revolution of the workers is inevitable and will manifest as an organic mass movement from a classical Marxist perspective.
Socialism, and particularly Marxist Socialism (from what I can remember it’s been a while) is an economic system where the means of production (factories, farms, anything really) are owned by the workers and not privately owned by the bourgeoise, which is capitalism. This is what is supposed to emerge from the Proletarian Revolution. There is a great deal of argument over what form this should take in left wing circles but the keystone of collective ownership as opposed to private ownership isn’t seriously contested.
Some (particularly Engels in his later years) viewed it as a more gradual Revolution akin to the Industrial Revolution, which saw power shift from the nobility to the bourgeoise and heralded the emergence of capitalism from feudalism.
further. In Hegelian terms, an existing force (the thesis) generates acounterforce (the antithesis). Conflict between the two forces results inthe forming of a synthesis. Then the process starts all over again.Thesis vs. antithesis results in synthesis....For Hegelians, the State is almighty, and seen as "the march of God onearth." Indeed, a state religion....We trace the extraordinary Skull and Bones influence in a majorHegelian conflict: Naziism vs. Communism. Skull and Bones memberswere in the dominant decision-making positions -- Bush, Harriman,Stimson, Lovett, and so on -- all Bonesmen, and instrumental in guidingthe conflict through use of "right" and "left." They financed andencouraged the growths of both philosophies and controlled the outcometo a significant extent. This was aided by the "reductionist" division inscience, the opposite of historical "wholeness." By dividing science andlearning into narrower and narrower segments, it became easier tocontrol the whole throught the parts
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: glen200376
www.nursingtimes.net...
Ms Shemirani had also made “derogatory” comments about other nursing and health professionals, according to the NMC document outlining the reasons for her striking off.
"It said Ms Shemirani had described nurses as being “complicit in genocide” and “criminals and liars”, and had suggested that nine out of every 10 nurses were “crap”."
Bitter, and twisted.
Socialism, and particularly Marxist Socialism (from what I can remember it’s been a while) is an economic system where the means of production (factories, farms, anything really) are owned by the workers and not privately owned by the bourgeoise, which is capitalism.
www.heritage.org...
Most importantly, Marx said that communism would ensure that children would be educated by the state and not by their parents. Communists, he wrote in the Manifesto, would “rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.” The making of the “New Man” was the priority, and the family was an obstacle.
originally posted by: ThirdEyeofHorus
a reply to: Ohanka
But I digress, Klaus Schwab of the WEC told the world that we “will own nothing and be happy”. Is this not exactly what communism exemplified … so please don’t tell me that these elites are not pushing a form of International communism.
Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice.... Public control of land use is therefore indispensable....1 — United Nations "Habitat I" Conference Report, 1976