Thread:Kalašnjikov/@comment-32637988-20171001020953/@comment-31572748-20171003012608

Kalašnjikov wrote: Liberals, not leftist. Centrist.

Social democrats, thieves.

Anarchists, violent.

Socialists = Communists.Communism is achieved in steps

First step:

State capitalism, industralization.

Second step:

Industrialization is finished, implement socialism.

Third step:

The state magically withers away and communism is established This statement is close minded and idiotic. Socialism comes in many spectrums and is a very broad term, most of them are not radical or extreme in any way or form. Social Democrats are far from communist, and they hardly steal either. While the definite downside of Social Democracy is higher taxes, the upside is that wealth will trickle down from the top to support the poor population and this can in many situations be greater than the negatives. As a example socialism would never work in the USA however, forms of socialism has done well in many countries such as Germany, Sweden, France, Canada, and many others socialism thrives. And with your statement of "Third step: The state magically withers away and communism is established" can you give any major examples of your claim of socialist nations turning into communist nations and withering away? And finally your examples of mass killings under communist regimes; any ideology has flaws and upsides and for all ideologies there are genocides and/or wrong doings.