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Originally posted by muse7
Leninst, Marxist, Socialist, Communist, Fascist! blah blah blah blah
Do you just throw those words around to make it sound like you know what you're talking about? Because you really don't.
The second flaw in capitalism is its chaotic nature. Whereas the state can control every aspect of socialism from production to distribution, capitalism is controlled by the free market. (Technically, capitalism is known as a market-directed economy and social-ism as a centrally planned economy although in practice most economies are a mixture of both.) In a socialistic system, economic decisions regarding price, production, and consumption are made by central planners affiliated with the government. In a capitalistic system, economic decisions are made by every producer and every consumer—a housewife with a shop-ping list, for example, is an economic planner in a capitalistic system. Marxism stresses this difference, claiming that only a planned economy can truly discover the best methods of production and distribution. Marxists believe that capitalist economies thrive on crises that tend to stimulate them. Marx believed this reliance on crises would create economic havoc in the long run, and therefore advocated that a planned community replace such a spontaneous, erratic, freewheeling system.
Originally posted by muse7
Leninst, Marxist, Socialist, Communist, Fascist! blah blah blah blah
Do you just throw those words around to make it sound like you know what you're talking about? Because you really don't.
Although Marx and Engels never put forward a unified presentation of the theory of the state, their conception of the state is a fundamental aspect of their outlook, and of what has since come to be called Marxism. In fact, theories of the state consti tute critical facets of all totalitarian credos, not just the Marxian. After all, a given ideology may be overwhelmingly totalitarian in underlying logic, but if it lacks a focus on using the state as the means of transforming society—that is, of imposing its ideas—its totalitarianism will remain implicit. It is the same with Marxism. While Marxism contains many propositions that imply totalitarianism, it is Marx and Engels' view of the state that renders their theory totalitarian in practice. This is mos t evident in their argument that the state, in the form of the dictatorship of the proletariat, is the chief weapon in the struggle to establish communism.
Unfortunately, the totalitarian nature of the Marxist view of the state is not so easily discerned. A glance at Marxist theory, and the practice of Marxist organizations, will reveal what appears to be a paradox. On the one hand, Marx and Engels and th eir followers claim to be vigorous opponents of the state, and insist that one of their most fundamental goals is the abolition of that institution. On the other hand, the vast majority of Marxist organizations have been, and continue to be, militant advo cates of the drastic extension of the role of the state in society. When they've come to power through revolutions or military conquest, Marxists have created societies that have been almost totally dominated by states. Indeed, these states' power has bee n among the greatest in history. Even the wing of the Marxist movement that no longer aims at revolution, the social-democratic, promotes the systemic expansion of the role of the state in capitalist society.
"By way of exception, however, periods occur in which the warring classes balance each other so nearly that the state power, as ostensible mediator, acquires, for the moment, a certain degree of independence of both. Such was the absolute monarchy of t he seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which held the balance between the nobility and the class of burghers; such was the Bonapartism of the First, and still more of the Second French Empire, which played off the proletariat against the bourgeoisie and the bourgeoisie against the proletariat." (Engels. Origin, pp. 283-4.)
8. "(T)he executive of the modern state is essentially a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie." (Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto, International Publishers, 1948, p. 11.)
Originally posted by 727Sky
My grandfather was born in Mexico and my mother is 1st generation American. Our family came here legally and, once here, English became our language because, as my grandfather told his family, we are in America and we WILL speak in the language of our new homeland.
Originally posted by ThisToiletEarth
Originally posted by 727Sky
My grandfather was born in Mexico and my mother is 1st generation American. Our family came here legally and, once here, English became our language because, as my grandfather told his family, we are in America and we WILL speak in the language of our new homeland.
Your grandfather is a sellout to his heritage.
Matt Gulick · Top Commenter QUOTE:
Shall I continue or will you just throw my post in the trash ?
I can go on telling you why redistribution of wealth in particular and Marxism in general is evil and downright diabolical.
idk, what's wrong with you ?
What the hell is wrong with you people?
are you responding to the correct thread ?
Such as corporations ruling our lives, police brutally arresting people on the streets, our genes being patented by CEOs
interesting
Illegal immigrants should have to come in a legal way
agreed.
Embrace your fellow man, help your fellow man
history says that is a bet only a fool would accept.
I bet we'd be out of all of these problems
I have already given a basic spiritual tenet as to why this thinking is not good for the soul. I could go deeper into it if necessary to get the point across. I already explained that Universal law and the law of karma have much to do with the state of a person's being.
so, if that's your description of a legal immigrant, how do you view the illegal immigrant and the abandonment of their heritage ??
Originally posted by ThisToiletEarth
Originally posted by 727Sky
My grandfather was born in Mexico and my mother is 1st generation American. Our family came here legally and, once here, English became our language because, as my grandfather told his family, we are in America and we WILL speak in the language of our new homeland.
Your grandfather is a sellout to his heritage.
Originally posted by jam321
U.S. Will Look To Mexico For Immigrants Within A Decade Due To Labor Shortage, Expert Says
www.huffingtonpost.com...
Originally posted by wildtimes
reply to post by malchir
Actually, in case any of you are interested, the term "illegal aliens" is considered derogatory. Their advocates prefer "undocumented residents."
Yeah, yeah....I know, it is what it is. But there's no need to use the i-word. It's like using the n-word. Or the w-word (wetbacks). Just try to be more empathetic, people.
They have documents it's just that they are fraudulent.
What is Progressive?
A young person attempts to define the meaning of progressivism today.
July 25, 2005 |
Progressivism, like many important concepts, is many things to many people. Nevertheless, it has its own history, its own culture, and its own politics - all wrapped into a potent package that is making its comeback in the political discourse of this great country. The Campus Progress conference is just the latest manifestation of a political movement that is already changing America's political landscape for the better.
So what the heck is "progressive"?
Those called 'progressives' of the late 19th and early 20th century, including such figures as presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, were renowned for checking the rise of corporate power and abuses and expanding democratic rights domestically. Later, leaders who followed the progressive line on foreign policy created an American nation that was an international leader in an economic, military, and moral sense.
American progressives tend to advocate progressive taxation and oppose what they describe as the growing and negative influence of large corporations. Progressives are typically in agreement on an international scale with left-liberalism in that they support organized labor and trade unions, they usually wish to introduce a living wage, and they often support the creation of a universal health care system.
In the United States, liberals and progressives are often conflated, and in general are the primary voters of the Democratic Party which has a "large tent" policy, combining similar if not congruent ideologies into large voting blocs.
Many progressives also support the Green Party or local parties such as the Vermont Progressive Party. In Canada, liberals usually support the national Liberal Party while progressives usually support the New Democratic Party, which traditionally has had provincial electoral success in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, and since the recent federal election, in Quebec.
Supporters say that higher levels of legal immigration would meet the U.S. need for certain kinds of workers. Increased legal migration also would reduce most of the incentive for illegal border crossings, backers of the plan say, and would allow border agents to focus on smugglers and people with violent criminal records.
Opponents such as Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), who has long opposed measures to increase immigration levels, say new workers would depress wages and crowd out Americans looking for work during a time of persistently high unemployment.
The bill aims to eliminate the current backlog of roughly 4 million people waiting to be reunited with family members in the U.S. The 11 million now in the country without legal authorization would be eligible for citizenship only after that backlog was resolved. Reunification efforts would require boosting the number of visas issued each year. To keep the additional inflow under control, the bill would stop allowing adult siblings of immigrants to qualify, but children and parents would continue to be eligible.
Originally posted by mcdgray129
This thread makes me sick i cant believe people are giving him flags and stars are you guys really that stuck up in America? Really? why would you want to turn anyone one away? an at least the people thats giving flags etc could post an say why instead of hiding...
Originally posted by mcdgray129
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
Your post is not even worth giving a real reply to as its clear you made up your mind, "all illegals are criminals" please dont even tell me this is not what you think as its clear from your post it is.....