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On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 00:29:47 GMT, "Exit" <exit@nomore.com> wrote:
>>> Democrats are socialists?
>>>
>>> To be a socialist (like Tony Blair or Karl Marx ) you need to
>>> believe in:
>>>
>>> State ownership of big business.
>>>
>>> A command economy.
>>>
>>> Redistribution of wealth.
>>>
>>> That the struggle between the proletariat and bourgeois is a politcal
>>> struggle.
>>>
>>> State provision of services.
>>>
>>> It still looks to me as though you have two right wing parties
>>> neither of whom would know socialism if it hit them in the face! ;-)
>>
>> Perhaps you need to look a bit closer. I'm not familiar with the
>> phrase "command economy", but everything else you mentioned is dead on
>> what the Democrats want.
>
>Really? Which industries have the democrats nationalised recently?
I said "want", not "accomplished". They're working hard at getting
health care socialized on both the national and in some cases, state
levels. They've failed pretty badly so far - but not necessarily for
lack of trying. Or lying.
>If they were socialists a national health service would be top of their
>list, but they don't ssem to have provided one yet.
See above.
>A command economy is one run by the state like the old soviet union.
Thanks.
>>> Democrats are socialists?
>>>
>>> To be a socialist (like Tony Blair or Karl Marx ) you need to
>>> believe in:
>>>
>>> State ownership of big business.
>>>
>>> A command economy.
>>>
>>> Redistribution of wealth.
>>>
>>> That the struggle between the proletariat and bourgeois is a politcal
>>> struggle.
>>>
>>> State provision of services.
>>>
>>> It still looks to me as though you have two right wing parties
>>> neither of whom would know socialism if it hit them in the face! ;-)
>>
>> Perhaps you need to look a bit closer. I'm not familiar with the
>> phrase "command economy", but everything else you mentioned is dead on
>> what the Democrats want.
>
>Really? Which industries have the democrats nationalised recently?
I said "want", not "accomplished". They're working hard at getting
health care socialized on both the national and in some cases, state
levels. They've failed pretty badly so far - but not necessarily for
lack of trying. Or lying.
>If they were socialists a national health service would be top of their
>list, but they don't ssem to have provided one yet.
See above.
>A command economy is one run by the state like the old soviet union.
Thanks.