06-17-2019, 07:10 PM
** 17-Jun-2019 PBrower and Marxism-Leninism
OK, I'm totally confused.
First off, I apologize for rarely reading the other threads in this
forum, and for lumping everyone together as having political views
that range from far left to loony left, and as being guided in all
things by a vitriolic hatred of Trump and 60 million Trump supporters.
It's unfair of me to think that everyone is the same.
But you in particular have always expressed the farthest left views,
and views about Trump that I've repeatedly described as completely
delusional.
So now I read the paragraph quoted above. Have you completely
abandoned your leftist views? Would David Horn agree with that
paragraph? That paragraph might have been written by a Trump
supporter.
It reminds of some of the things that Deng Xiaoping wrote in 1978 when
he instituted an "Opening up and reform" policy that completely
reversed Socialism and opened up China to free markets and capitalism.
However, it was still a CCP dictatorship, and the phrase "Socialism
with Chinese characteristics" came into use, even though it was no
longer socialism, but was the same as Hitler's National Socialism.
Once again, I'm confused. What's happening to you? Are you going
through a midlife crisis?
(06-16-2019, 11:41 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: > Without question, Marxism-Leninism as an economic policy is an
> economic disaster. Marxism-Leninism as a political order is a
> human calamity. Either way Marxism-Leninism will retard economic
> growth (a market at the least punishes wastes of resources) and
> novel creativity. What Marxism-Leninism is good at creating other
> than human suffering is weaponry -- hardly a surprise in
> militarized countries. Thus the beloved AK-47 and MiG fighters of
> the Soviet Union, East German missiles, and the infamous plastic
> explosive Symtex of Commie-era Czechoslovakia. Pour resources into
> such things with few restraints and there will be spectacular
> results.
OK, I'm totally confused.
First off, I apologize for rarely reading the other threads in this
forum, and for lumping everyone together as having political views
that range from far left to loony left, and as being guided in all
things by a vitriolic hatred of Trump and 60 million Trump supporters.
It's unfair of me to think that everyone is the same.
But you in particular have always expressed the farthest left views,
and views about Trump that I've repeatedly described as completely
delusional.
So now I read the paragraph quoted above. Have you completely
abandoned your leftist views? Would David Horn agree with that
paragraph? That paragraph might have been written by a Trump
supporter.
It reminds of some of the things that Deng Xiaoping wrote in 1978 when
he instituted an "Opening up and reform" policy that completely
reversed Socialism and opened up China to free markets and capitalism.
However, it was still a CCP dictatorship, and the phrase "Socialism
with Chinese characteristics" came into use, even though it was no
longer socialism, but was the same as Hitler's National Socialism.
Once again, I'm confused. What's happening to you? Are you going
through a midlife crisis?
