Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable?

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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

First off, the 1956 Republican party is not the same as the modern GOP. You conveniently chose the time immediately before the schism that essentially reversed the two parties.

If anyone wants to argue about this, I suggest you read about Strom Thurmond. Perhaps the most vile, openly racist politician of the 20th century US. Thurmond was a lifelong Democrat, until the party started supporting civil rights.

That’s when he and his fellow Dixiecrats (racist Southern Democrats) moved to the Republican party.

Second, nobody classifies North Korea as that, except for North Korea. That doesn’t mean that we cannot label it accurately.

Third, Hitler never claimed to be a Marxist, nor have I ever seen anyone make that claim. I’ve seen the “hurr durr Nazis are socialist because it’s in the name,” but there’s a distinction between socialism and Marxism.

Fourth, the logic of the Bloomberg thing isn’t sound. “Almost as if he were a green” as if having less cars is completely unique to the Green party. Not how logic works.

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